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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
 
Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/8Lush pasture in a 1937 fieldAnnual ryegrassLevin - sandsEngineering workshop - 39Effect of flood on potato crop - 1 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/1DSIR Newsletter - Number 3 - Date: 30 July 1979PoplarsAustralian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackMan driving a tractor in fieldEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/1Levin Horticultural Field Day - 5 of 11Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/4Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 3. 'Invermoose' on paradeGroynes. 6. Stone crate groyneTom Fraser and Gavin SheathPlant breeders at workP. Evans - 3Stacking cropLandscape and erosionBiochemical Processing Centre - 38Propagation tray - 1 of 2Engineering workshop - 74Ballantrae - B64Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiDSIR Newsletter - Number 19 - Date: 8 April 1980Nitrogen - measuring losses from urine patchesBruce Levy - 2DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News No. 21 - 1988Grasslands: aerial viewEffect of flood on potato crop - 2 of 2MafTech - 6 of 18Ballantrae dam - 2Effect of length of time between shearings on cottingDSIR Newsletter - Number 8 - Date: 8 October 1979Aitchencen SeedoMatic TractorAlan Tutton Johns (1917-1997)Grazing sheep Hillside sheep - 6 of 7Field day pumpkins - 3 of 3Venison Tasting Panel. 2. Smelling the aroma of a fork full of venisonInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 6 of 9Dr McEwen - 2Cows in yardRanstead and Wallace in the Ruakura LibraryEngineering Workshop - 12Winchmore Farm and the Canterbury PlainEngineering Workshop - 19Mr Anderson - 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