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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
 
Cows in paddocksTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 2 of 8MafTech - 14 of 18Bruce Levy and staffMAFTech News - Date: June 1991Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 5 of 6Clover - roots - 7Farmall model tractor making silageStaff of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionBryan and Joanne GuyPaspalum - Amaranthus - Perennial Rye GrassTuritea stream - new cut - 4 of 4John Lancashire (1935-2015)Levin Horticultural Field Day - 8 of 11Mass Spectrometry Building - GrasslandsTuritea stream - 1966 - 6Rotational grazing of dairy cowsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 2 - 14 February 1989Presentation to Togo JohnstoneGrasses - 3Wool Metrology - 6 of 7Dr H.A. Eagles with maize strainsMowing turf trials - 3 of 4Engineering workshop - 66Dr Mitchell - 2Randy Rummell and Mike Tate with deerStarlings. 2. Clutch of starling eggsLevin Horticultural Field Day - 9 of 11Wool Metrology - 3 of 7Engineering Workshop - animal operating table - 1No. 1 type willow mattress. 1. During constructionClover seedlings in a test tube rackStream bank erosion near Grasslands campus bridgeIndustrial plant - 1Engineering workshop - 54Farm types by output percentageRestraining table for ramsGrasslands plots - 7 of 7Wilting experiment - 2 of 4Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/9Cow eating Matua prairie grassC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) looking into the cameraBee pollinating - 4 of 4Seed headsScientific equipment - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 19 - 7 December 1989I. Reifer and James Melville at GrasslandsMultiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 4.Palliser Bay - Muehlenbeckia astonii Stacking crop
 
 
 
 
 
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