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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
 
Ballantrae - B211940's Fire - 1 of 8Ballantrae - B38Bryan Guy and Russell HurstOperation table - sheep - 6Sheep tethering using a single paunch strapCompiling photosKaikohe Farm 1959 - 7 of 13Measuring a cow's output of dungSpaced plants at Grasslands - 3 of 7Ballantrae - B34Spraying cropsBallantrae - B61Pipe installation - 5Hamua - Pawera comparisonBallantrae - B18Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiMean monthly earth temperature at Te AwaGrasslands Library extension being manoeuvred past Building 13Close up - plant - 2Tractor on siteEngineering workshop - 44MAF National Field Day - 1 of 4Molecular Genetics - 11940's Fire - 3 of 8Hillside sheep - 1 of 7Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.15Ballantrae - B46LakeEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/3Gleditsia - Te Puke - 10Van Arche's land at Tuki Tuki - 1Consultancy Conference - 1 of 5Taita Experimental Station. 10.Dairy Farm at Levin - 2 of 3Main drive - Massey Agricultural CollegeRay Bailey - 2 of 2Hobsonville, Papakura - 1Tractor - GrasslandsValley - 1960Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/610/3Social cricket game - 3 of 4Clover leaf, V brokenGrasslands songTiller formation from flower headOliver tractor - 5MAFTech News - Date: November 1990MafTech fruit - 5 of 10Ballantrae - B42Countryside
 
 
 
 
 
Ballantrae 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 Worms