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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Mr. Corkill at work - 1Cars outside buildings at GrasslandsMerino ram sale - 1988 - 4 of 7PlotsInvermay forest blocks and speciesSheep rotational grazing - 1 of 3Sheep in single leg restraintEngineering workshop - 45Mowing turf trials - 1 of 4Production rate of crops and water useTension crack above a slipErosion - 3Landscape - country roadBallantrae cows - 7Models - ScienceFlashburn - River ValleyGrasslands DivisionSyd Duncan and a Bomb CalorimeterGlasshouse construction - 8Soil sampling 1: technique: reverse of cardDairy chemistryEffect of cotting as a two-tooth, on future production life time average: four tooth to six year oldFarmlet species trial - 2 of 11Stevenson screen. 2. Checking the instrumentsGrasslands Division - 1961Whatawhata landscape. View 5Rainfall at Te Awa - 1948-1968Threshing a Nucleus broad red clover stackBallantrae dam - 5Clover - roots - 7Pig husbandry. 4. Selection of breeding stockAlex Knob - Plant - 4Sheep with tripletsXerophyteWool Metrology - 3 of 7Stacking cropDairying at Levin - 2 of 4Taita Experimental Station. 7.Gray scale - 2Playgianthus betulinasWhare - 1920Close up - plant - 4Hand held soil moisture probeGrasslands staffSheep tethering using a neck collarPlants against a white backdropPeat swamp - old rootsB. Forde - 1K.K. Pandey - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989
 
 
 
 
 
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