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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Ballantrae - B3Ongaonga farmerLand Development - 6Glasshouse construction - 1NZ Forage Germplasm Centre - 1Approach to the HomesteadPithomyces chartarumLionel Corkill (1906-1987)Merino ram sale - 1987 - 3 of 5Ballantrae - B71Pipe installation - 1Waimangu geyserSlash - Turitea stream - 2Ploughing scrub - 1 of 3Dr McEwen - 2MangelsOpening of new wingChine removal machine: saw arm: general assemblyCattle weaning - 4 of 4Building - on the move - 1Library extension on a truck, passing ReceptionInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 9 of 9Syd Duncan and a Bomb CalorimeterTaita Experimental Station. 7.Leaf litter - 3Microscopic plant cell - 6Wallaceville Laboratory Block: Index of plans: Sheet 2Tractors at work on Kaikohe farmErosion - 1Levin Horticultural Field Day - 11 of 11Mr. W.P.H. SaxtonEarly Grasslands site - 5Cam S. W. Reid, Director, Applied Biochemistry Division, DSIR. Hut - Alex Knob trackMafTech fruit - 1 of 10Aerial dusting - 2Lotus screening at Flock HouseDuke of Edinburgh observing border dyke irrigation at WinchmoreParaparamu BeachClover root weevils: adultsLotus uliginosus plotsCocksfoot - spaced plantsSheep at leisureGrasslands, the first 50 years, 1936-1986Establishment trial at BallantraeSeed scarifierNursery - Gleditsia treesM. Beardsall - 1Ballantrae - B20Grasslands Division - 1961
 
 
 
 
 
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