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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.

 

 
Sheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
Bayer Classic 1989 - 1 of 4Petri dish - 8Xanthium - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 93/219Ballantrae - B42Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeEngineering Workshop - 12G. Latch - 1Test tubes holding plants - 1Ryegrass - 8Growing turf in sandBee pollinating - 4 of 4Clover leaves, ragged edgesSheep grazing on prairie grass on Rawhiti StationWhite Pine - forestGroup photo - 1MafTech fruit - 5 of 10Cyclists on bush trackAerial view east of Invermay CampusBallantrae dam - 4Tower Block, Ruakura, under construction and with its frame erectedWilting experiment - 3 of 4Stevenson screen. 1. Holding up the front panelAnagallis arvensisFirst DSIR office in Palmerston NorthSheep grazing paddocks - 9 of 12Hobsonville, Papakura - 2Mowing turf trials - 2 of 4Engineering workshop - 70Ballantrae - B12Headquarters - 5Engineering workshop - 32First deer to arrive at InvermayPithomyces chartarumIan WarringtonClover against a white background - 6Early Grasslands site - 7Sclerotinia minor - 1 of 3Valley - 1947Black and white cows at LevinA fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: planEarly Grasslands site - 10Hawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 3 of 4MafTech - 1 of 18Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/3Animal Nutrition Unit - 5 of 10Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/575/2Hillside sheep - 2 of 7Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 1 of 8Cam and Kathleen Reid with Pat Mangam
 
 
 
 
 
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