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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Primary forest before fellingTropical grasses - Temperate grasses - graphWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.5Alan Stewart - Alistair MoorehouseWhanga townshipGully control by bulldozing. 3. Head controlBovine trichomoniasis: breeding history, 1946-1948Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeSeed crop - BaLamb tailing at Tara Hills. 2. Tailing multiple lambsOngaonga farmerClover - 1958 - 1Cotula turf and the bowling green - 6 of 8Grasslands staff membersAirplane with carry loadSheep in paddockT. TaylorBayer Classic 1989 - 1 of 4Trifolium vesciculosumTest tubes holding plants - 6Alex Knob - view - 2D. Grant - 1Repairs to farm equipment - 2 of 3Wilting experiment - 1 of 4Merino ram sale - 1987 - 1 of 5Hillside sheep - 6 of 7Ballantrae - B45Slip sowing - 5 of 5DSIR Newsletter - Number 3 - Date: 30 July 1979Whatawhata landscape. View 3Clover leaf, feathermarkClover against a white background - 1Cow - dung - 3Sheep wearing a coveringJohn Lancashire and visitors in new demonstration blockHill slopesBruce Levy - 1Merino ram sale - 1987 - 3 of 5Spaced plants at Grasslands - 2 of 7Field days computer - 1 of 3Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Removal of rocks from siteBiochemical Processing Centre - 1Grasslands name as a logoR.G. (Graham) Bell (1943-2023) in a studio portrait, 1998Ballantrae - B69Operating table (Sheep). 3. Jock Allison performing surgery on a sheepDSIR Newsletter - Number 11 - Date: 19 November 1979Clover - roots - 9Ballantrae landscape - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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 Roots Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat