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Welcome to RECOLLECT

Welcome to the AgResearch Digital Legacy Collection

AgResearch Limited is a leading Crown Research Institute charged with delivering science and innovation to benefit New Zealand agriculture and its wider economy.

Formed in 1992, we have a history stretching back to the beginning of the 1900’s.

This unique collection represents a small sample of photographs, documents, videos and other material that will take you on a compelling journey through the history of New Zealand's pastoral legacy, reflected in our Company, its activities, and its people.

Browse or search our stunning archive, or register and you will be able to contribute your knowledge and memories about this material.

AgResearch Limited is proud to share this rich history of New Zealand's primary industry.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Ballantrae - B65Weatherboard buildings - original Invermay campusDSIR - Information on Electron MicroscopyBuilding - on the move - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/5Tordon spray trial - 4 of 5Phillip SpringLevy - 3Engineering Workshop - wood storageFarmlet species trial - 2 of 11Biochemical Processing Centre - 58Merino ram sale - 1988 - 1 of 7Ray Brougham - 6DiggingGray scale - 1Clover against a white background - 3Lincoln - trial area 1948Broken foreduneGleditsia tree - 1Clover leaf, V filledTest tubes holding plants - 3Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/7M. Beardsall - 2Wallaceville Antique BellowsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 9 - 16 May 1989Alex Knob - Plant - 2DSIR Palmerston North - telephone numbers 1960Glasshouse construction - 1Sheep grazing paddocks - 5 of 12Taihape - typical landscapeWallaceville - Entrance HallwayLeaf litter - 3Levin Horticultural Field Day - 3 of 11Sheep walking towards feedLush pasture in a 1937 fieldMowing plotsGully control by bulldozing. 1. Bulldozing the headTaita Experimental Station. 1.Recording weight Grasslands SEFTONJim Bolger - 3Biochemical Processing Centre - 23Spaced plants - C1153, C1067 and C1527Ryegrass headClover - roots - 8Restraint of farm animalsGrasslands staff membersCows - grazing - 2MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu bookletEffect of age on cotting
 
 
 
 
 
Ballantrae Biochemical Processing Centre Buildings Campuses Cattle Clover Construction Cows Crops Diagrams Directors Diseases Ephemera Equipment Erosion Farm staff Farmers Farms Feeding Fertiliser Fields Glasshouses Graphs Grasses Grasslands Harvesting Horses Humour Insects Invermay Laboratories Lambs Landscapes Leaves Machinery MafTech Measuring Meetings Observation Open Days Paddocks Plants Plots Publications Restraint Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat