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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Certified seed - 9 of 11Engineering Workshop - image No. 91/326Hector TrackAorangi harvesting of Grasslands Matua Prairie grassProduction rate of crops and water useErosion - 8Perennial Ryegrass seedGrasslands construction - 1Gore - clover - 4Stabilised sandhill countryDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 29 - December 1989Engineering Workshop - image No. 78/359/1Haymaking breaktimeHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 1 of 4Engineering Workshop - 8Sheep grazing paddocks - 10 of 12Kernels - 2Engineering workshop - 56Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/610/1Slash - Turitea stream - 2Dr Barclay - 4Farm of Mr Frank J. FarrellBiochemical Processing Centre - 38Tractor in the fieldBallantrae - B65Mr. JahusonGleditsia - Te Puke - 1Alan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), 1963MowingMan viewing Wairua FallsBayer Classic 1989 - 2 of 4Tara Hills lamb tailing - 6 of 9Clover leaves, no markEc 26 - Ecotype collectionM. Clark - 2Intensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 1 of 2Whatawhata landscape. View 2Landscapes - 2Tractor driven harvesting Gully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringEngineering workshop - 30MafTech landscapes - 4 of 4Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/2Poultry Drive, RuakuraDr. Shearer's visit - 2Sheep wearing dung return devicesScientists at Grasslands - 2 of 2Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close up: reverse of cardPig husbandry. 6. Crops to grow for pigs: a pig industry instructional filmMowing preparation
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat