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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Settlers home in North TaranakiRainfall at Te Awa - 1948-1968Grasslands plots - 5 of 7DSIR Palmerston North - Campus NewsSheep weighing. 2. Reading sheep weight as it steps on the scalesMt Hector hutBallantrae - B79SilageAirplane with carry loadGully control by bulldozing. 11. Site of No. 1 DamGrasslands under construction in 1953Ongaonga - Field stop - 1Landscapes - 2Certified seed - 3 of 11Hawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 4 of 4Bovine trichomoniasis: breeding history, 1946-1948Biochemical Processing Centre - 30Syd Duncan and a Bomb CalorimeterProduction rate of crops and water useBeef farmlets rotation chart. 2. Percentage of cropsMAF - Precise irrigation managementKernels - 1Sheep in single leg restraintLevin Horticultural Field Day - 8 of 11Mechanical tree planting. 2. Mechanical auger in actionClover - roots - 5Wallaceville - Brass bustBiochemical Processing Centre - 57Gleditsia - Te Puke - 3Scientist - unidentified - 4Masterton show - 1988 - 6 of 10Callus - 5Engineering Workshop - animal operating table - 1Enoch (Bruce) Levy (1892-1985) in 1950Staff at work - 5Callus - 3C.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) in a studio portrait, smokingLand and seascape - New ZealandEngineering Workshop - image No. 89/330/1Ballantrae - B54Opening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 2. Taking refreshmentsDairy Farm at Levin - 1 of 3Ec 25 - Ecotype collectionWaipukurauSheep grazing paddocks - 6 of 12DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989Hillside sheep - 6 of 7Lionel Corkill's departure celebrationDog kennelsDr. Shearer's visit - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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