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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
 
Production rate of crops and water useDrainage frame on an un-drained plot: close up: reverse of cardVegetable gardenTuritea stream - new cut - 4 of 4Engineering workshop - 57Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Ballantrae - B2Engineering workshop - 40MafTech display - 1 of 4Non-irradiated N. alata pollenEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/4Syd EastonSclerotinia minor - 3 of 3Mr. Thurston - 4Early types of teat cup linersTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Dr SlackAerial dusting - 1O. sativus x O. compressus - 8Pig husbandry. 2. Management from weaning to slaughterWallaceville - Cambridge rocking microtome knife - Inside caseAlex Knob - view - 11Amino Acid AnalyserBeef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 2 of 3Pots holding raw earth - worm activity Christmas party, 1961Stevenson screen. 2. Checking the instrumentsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 14 - 10 August 1989% respiration graph - 2Grasslands female staff reciteLand Development - 3Seasonal production of Italian ryegrass strainsPoultry farmG. Latch - 2Mouse-ear hawkweedGrasslands Library extension being moved onto its siteClover root weevils on the edge of a white clover leaf Animal Production - 1991 - 5 of 6Uncleared landGroynes. 3. Breakthrough of waterEngineering workshop - 62Lotus screening at Flock HouseLeaf litter - 3DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989DSIR - Plant Physiology Division Valedictory DinnerM. Beardsall - 3Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 8 of 13Akaroa Sir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenPetri dish - 8
 
 
 
 
 
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