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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
 
Applying compost. 1. Tractor with scoop of compostLamb tailing at Tara Hills. 2. Tailing multiple lambsTuritea stream in flood. 2. Massey University in the backgroundBruce Levy - 4Grasslands plots - 1 of 7Gleditsia - Te Puke - 4Social cricket game - 3 of 4Pamela LyttletonDr JackmanRugby team, RuakuraCow in a cattle crushJohn van den Bosch with white clover and chicoryAutoclave in Casein Laboratory, InvermayLely Spring Tyne WeederValley - 1947MafTech - 12 of 18R. Robotham - 2Effect of age on cottingEngineering workshop - 39Levin - spinifexDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News - December 1988Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/2Clover inoculation - 2MafTech - 8 of 18Emilio Ruz and Roger Ball inspecting grass in a pastureBiochemical Processing Centre - 44Grasslands - Levy BuildingRumen - 1Biochemical Processing Centre - 27Research orchard - Havelock NorthBeef drenching at Aorangi - 1 of 2Headquarters - 6Soil fertility displayMafTech goats - 3 of 7DSIR - Grasslands News - November 1990 - Issue No. 3Clover root weevils on the edge of a white clover leaf Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.3Margot Forde - in group - 1First deer to arrive at InvermayGully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorGrasses in rowsInvermay forest blocks and speciesEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/3Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up: image and reverse of card Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/1Engineering workshop - 52Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/2Multiple lamb birthsWooden twin-pole head vice for sheep tetheringCar on bush track
 
 
 
 
 
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