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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
 
Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/1Aerial view east of Invermay CampusDSIR - Grassline - Newsletter 1Pasture treading effects - 7 of 9Sheep FarmerHarvesting spaced plantsRoland M.W. SumnerCotula turf and the bowling green - 1 of 8Models - What are they?Animal Production - 1991 - 4 of 6Hand pollinating - 1 of 2MafTech vinesPackard 7201 Radio Chromatogram ScannerErosion - 6Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 1 of 2Hauptner Syringe - WallacevilleEarly Grasslands site - 8Removal of rocks from siteAustralian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackVenison Tasting Panel. 2. Smelling the aroma of a fork full of venisonEarthworms. 3. Flat wormCabbage treesEngineering Workshop - 5Beef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 3 of 3Whatawhata landscape. View 1Tractor - HaywagonPots holding raw earth - worm activity Ongaonga - Field stop - 1Taita Experimental Station. 9.Opening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 2. Taking refreshmentsAerial farmingFarmland - 2Sheep yards and pens, RuakuraGroup photo - 1Stabilised sandhill countryShingle Scouring under the Aorangi BridgeRecording weight Engineering workshop - 32Biochemical Processing Centre - 13Merino ram sale - 1988 - 5 of 7DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 5 - 14 March 1989Kereru - Front angled viewSoil Chemistry Laboratory - lidded jarsBallantrae - B35Ballantrae - B33Tractor trailerTordon spray trial - 1 of 5Drainage frame on a drained plot: close up: reverse of cardEvaluating brassica in the fieldSoil Chemistry Laboratory - 4 of 6
 
 
 
 
 
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