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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
 
Tall fescues - 1 of 2In-vitro culturing of embryosEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/1Aorangi Farm Open Day. 8. Control system - diagramBiochemical Processing Centre - 13Engineering Workshop - 17Milk flow indicator: framed with index card (PDF)Erosion - 8Mangels - Bay of PlentyEngineering workshop - 32Effect of length of time between shearings on cottingEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/4/AThresher 1952Fuchsia excorticata - scaling barkInoculated - not inoculatedPasture treading effects - 8 of 9Turitea stream in flood. 4. Enveloping the bridgeEngineering workshop - 28Scaffolding on a Grasslands building - 2Ballantrae - B64MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet front pageCallus - 1Ballantrae - B13Engineering workshop - 55Engineering workshop - 75Dr. Shearer's visit - 1Dairy Farm at Levin - 2 of 3DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 11 - 14 June 1989Gully control by bulldozing. 4. Aerial viewAlex Knob - view - 9Otaki - swing suspension bridgeDr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysAnimal Nutrition Unit - 7 of 10Te Awa DamDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 6 - March 1985DSIR Newsletter - Number 8 - Date: 8 October 1979Margot Forde (1935-1992)Bryan Guy and Russell HurstPreparing turf plots for sowing - 1 of 2Cow - dung - 5Ballantrae - B46How much grass do cows eat?Headquarters - 3MAF - Levin Horticultural Research Centre BrochureRuakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 3. South-west sectionJersey cows under a large, wooden, herd shelterInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 1 of 4Junction plots - 1 of 2Consultancy Conference - 2 of 5
 
 
 
 
 
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 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