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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Field day 1989 - 3 of 3The Store, Grasslands. 4. Office areaSettlers home in North TaranakiWatering seedlingsGroup visit to Tehokowhitu-A-Tu Scientist - unidentified - 6Farmlet species trial - 2 of 11Engineering workshop - 45Intensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2TutiraSpaced row plantingKaikohe Farm 1959 - 8 of 13Certified seed - 1 of 11Bayer Classic 1989 - 2 of 4Sowing gully floor. 3. Gully floorLevin Horticultural Field Day - 2 of 11Plant Chemistry Laboratory - exterior - circa 1950Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.1DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 28 - October 1989Dr Jackman - 2Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 2 of 8Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/1Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 2 of 9Clover - sectioningClimate room - diagramDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 20 - 21 December 1989Flame weeder. 3. Rear viewDigger preparing site - 1Théodore Mine - Potash buildings in the background - FranceOrganic potting mix displayEngineering workshop - 55Root measurements: 3. LucerneD. Edmond - 1K.K. Pandey - 1Paekakariki - contoursBevin CornwallSpaced plants at Grasslands - 1 of 7Ploughing scrub - 2 of 3Young Farmers ClubLooking over Lyttelton Bay and Governers BayPetri dish - 3Ba seed cropBallantrae - B7National ParkAutoclave in Casein Laboratory, InvermayGuthrie-Smith's house - 1 of 2Mr Anderson - 2Cow - dung - 3DSIR - Ground Levelling at Palmerston NorthUsing laparoscope at Invermay
 
 
 
 
 
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