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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
 
Te Awamutu silage - 1 of 2Test tubes holding plants - 2Mr. W.P.H. SaxtonInternational Science Congress at Massey UniversityDSIR - Guide to Engineering Workshop - image No. 85/431/2Aerial dusting - 2Hugh McGarveyMr Anderson - 2Cyril Armstrong and Peter Barclay examining grass in a fieldLamium amplexicamleBiochemical Processing Centre - 46Biochemical Processing Centre - 25MafTech - 7 of 18DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 6 - 3 May 1990Bloat Research TeamAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 5 of 14Female staffPig husbandry. 6. Crops to grow for pigs: a pig industry instructional filmClover flowersDSIR Newsletter - Number 21 - Date: 19 May 1980Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 4 of 8Tower Block, Ruakura, under construction and with its frame erectedOrganic potting mix displayHeadquarters - 3Mr. Thurston - 1Field day pumpkins - 1 of 3Erosion - 7In-vitro culturing of embryosJack Ranstead (1859?-1944)Tall fescues - 1 of 2Gully control by bulldozing. 5. Work completedWallaceville Animal Ethics CommitteeKaikohe Farm 1959 - 5 of 13Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 3. By milkingBiochemical Processing Centre - 16Biochemical Processing Centre - 38Aorangi Lowland Research StationSoil samples - testingK.K. Pandey - 1Palmerston North Show - 5 of 5Levin Horticultural Field Day - 1 of 11Dr Mitchell - 3Dryland farming systemsB. sitchensis - Grasslands Matua - Prairie grass comparisonCow - dung - 5Sheep yards and pens, Ruakura: with other buildingsFarmland - 3Damaged white clover DSIR Newsletter - Number 9 - Date: 23 October 1979
 
 
 
 
 
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