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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Repairs to farm equipment - 3 of 3Ballantrae - B51Digging an observation pitHaymaking - 2Hokitika - West EndTall fescues - 2 of 2Invermay laparoscopy of sheep - 2 of 4Dr Phil Roloston and the Honourable Bob TizardDairy Science Building, Ruakura, under construction. 1. View from the northWallaceville - Cobalt GunFungi from sheep's stomachClover root weevil: smallBallantrae cows - 3Farmlet species trial - 8 of 11Engineering workshop - 50Taita Experimental Station. 7.Ac cloverResearchers at Brownrigg AgricultureSir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenJohn James driving the Stanhay precision seeder at Aorangi - B&W versionFlock House Farm forest blocks and speciesGrasslands staffMAFTech News - Date: June 1991Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/3Repairs to farm equipment - 2 of 3Ballantrae - B52Engineering workshop - 31Farm participantsHandsprayingCotula turf and the bowling green - 3 of 8MafTech - 17 of 18Graham Wesley Butler (1928-2007)A. HarrisCotula turf and the bowling green - 6 of 8Mowed paddockBallantrae - B31Building - on the move - 1Aerial topdressing planeSuperphosphate useFour sheep grazingPrunella vulgarisGroynes. 10. Gully with planted baysAlex Knob - Plant - 4NZ Forage Germplasm Centre - 3Margot Forde - in group - 2PlotsPloughing scrub - 1 of 3Southern AlpsBiosensors TeamGrasslands Division
 
 
 
 
 
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