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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
 
Wilting experiment - 2 of 4Clover leaf, V brokenBallantrae - B53Animal chute head-gateMt Hector hutMafTech goats - 1 of 7Sheep tethering using a single paunch strap: rear viewSheep weighing. 2. Reading sheep weight as it steps on the scalesFlower bed in bloom, Campbell Block, RuakuraMangelsO. sativus x O. compressus - 8Clover - roots - 9Trailer tank - 3Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries map displayBallantrae - B48Kernels - 2Hilltop mean monthly earth temperatureGroynes. 1. Overflow at the groyneDiggingBuilding construction - 1955 - 1Sixteen clover pots - 2 of 2Effect of mature rape plants on first row of turnipsDSIR - Grasslands News - March 1991 - Issue No. 7Phillip SpringBanks PeninsulaSpirometra tapeworm larvaArapuni FallsMAF - Post-Harvest Technology BrochureDSIR Newsletter - Number 22 - Date: 3 June 1980B.E. Talboys opening the Tower Block, RuakuraGleditsia - Te Puke - 12Operating table - sheep - 11Wool Metrology - 1 of 7 Taita Experimental Station. 8.Bruce Levy - 6Engineering Workshop - 10A/51/5D. Edmond - 3% respiration graph - 2Ballantrae - B55Nursery - Gleditsia treesKauri regenerationCows standing on a hillslopeMAF - Project managerSocial cricket game - 3 of 4Climate Laboratory - Floor mapFibre farming displaySilageJohn Brock - 1Mr ThurstonFarmland - 1
 
 
 
 
 
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