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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.

 

 
Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31
 
BoatingDamaged white clover: close-upWool roomA fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: box detailGrasses - 4Certified seed - 3 of 11MafTech goats - 3 of 7Sheep grazing in paddockGrasslands plots - 4 of 7Rodger Claydon working on a plot: distance viewDSIR Newsletter - Number 17 - Date: 10 March 1980Turitea stream - 1966 - 6Whatawhata landscape. View 3Erosion - 3MafTech - 8 of 18Ryegrass - 6Gleditsia - Te Puke - 13Gleditsia tree - femaleSowing gully floor. 2. Rolling gully floorSheep weighing. 4. Sheep exiting the weighing scalesB.J. FordeBovine trichomoniasis: calving percentage, 1932-1947Wool Metrology - 2 of 7Gully head control, close upMasterton show - 1988 - 3 of 10Hawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 2 of 4XerophyteSocial cricket game - 2 of 4Reg Keogh - 3Petri dish - 1Flame weeder. 2. Tractor drivenSheep grazing paddocks - 7 of 12MafTech - 17 of 18Hand held soil moisture probeKaikohe Farm 1959 - 1 of 13Animal Production - 1991 - 1 of 6Cattle - holding paddockBaling hay in CanterburyTrailer tank - 3Winchmore Farm buildings: aerial viewBiochemical Processing Centre - 43Tension crack above a slipMAFTech News - Date: June 1991Pasture treading effects - 8 of 9Female staff in 1948DSIR Newsletter - Number 12 - Date: 3 December 1979Bayer Classic 1989 - 2 of 4Gully control by bulldozing. 8. Filling runnelsBiochemical Processing Centre - 48Hand pollinating - 2 of 2
 
 
 
 
 
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