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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Construction at Grasslands - 1DSIR - Gore Research StationCricket match - refreshmentsEntomology Conference - 1978D. Edmond - 5Silage pit coverTaita Experimental Station. 3.SheepEngineering workshop - 55Flower bed in bloom, Campbell Block, RuakuraClover - 3Scaffolding on a Grasslands building - 1Scrub land with pumice coverSheep in single leg restraintNikau palmDr Mitchell - 4Silage pitHand topdressing at Te AwaBallantrae - B3P. Evans - 3Prof Hudson from Massey - 1 of 2Invermay laparoscopy of sheep - 2 of 4Levin Horticultural Field Day - 9 of 11Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/2Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/1Effect of nutrition on cottingMasterton show - 1988 - 7 of 10Field Day attendees observing a demonstration of silage handlingRyegrass in tube - 2Department of Agriculture (Research Division) research centres, stations, and areasP. Evans - 2Grasslands windows added to wingLake WanakaAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 3 of 14DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 5 - 14 March 1989Australian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackDr McEwen - 1Bone scrappers, RuakuraEngineering workshop - 46More than 200 years of science!MAF - Levin Plant Protection CentreWool Metrology - 4 of 7Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/4Otaki stoney countryErosion - 10Restraint of farm animalsBallantrae - B73Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 3. 'Invermoose' on paradeSoil sampling 2: mixing the sample: reverse of cardBackfilling the observation pit
 
 
 
 
 
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