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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
 
DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 11 - 31 May 1989West Coast roadGrasslands construction - 2Petri dish - 8Man viewing Wairua FallsThrough the portalsLotus crop in full flowerMafTech vinesField day carrots - 3 of 7Measuring bagged grass clippingsAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 14 of 14Sheep at leisureOpen Day gathering at InvermayWallaceville - PolarimeterNew Zealand DSIR Newsletter - June 1963Spaced plants - G4709Ballantrae landscape - 2Ewes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks - 3 of 4Winchmore Farm and the Canterbury PlainRelationship between lambing percent and cottingCows in yardChris Freke (1937-2018)Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.9Te Awa paddocksMasterton show - 1988 - 4 of 10Alan Stewart - Alistair MoorehouseG. Latch - 3Ballantrae dam - 1MAF National Field Day - 3 of 4Lindsay Wallace (1918-1991)Aerial farmingLand Development - 2Merino ram sale - 1988 - 4 of 7Engineering workshop - 58DSIR Newsletter - Number 1 - Date: 2 July 1979Gully control by bulldozing. 4. Aerial viewGrasslands - Summer/Spring - 1958Ruapehu viewPipe smokerKeith Steele Scientist - unidentified - 4Heifer's horn following removalBallantrae - B36Female staff in 1948Ec 24 - Ecotype collectionSheep grazing paddocks - 2 of 12Aerial spraying - 1Rows of grassesWhatawhata landscape. View 3The Store, Grasslands. 3. Gordon Stayt
 
 
 
 
 
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