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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
 
Vegetable display - 1 of 2Engineering workshop - 75Gavin Milne, Grant Douglas and Garry WaghornTordon spray trial - 2 of 5Farmland - 1Farmlet species trial - 7 of 11Lindsay Wallace (1918-1991)AgResearch logo, 1992Engineering workshop - 49Seed Threshing MillSmall Animal House: front view: close-up, 1Headquarters - 6Te Awamutu silage - 1 of 2DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 17 - August 1988Ballantrae - B57Tiller formation from flower headXanthium - 2Field workersWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.12Flame weeder. 3. Rear viewEngineering workshop - 41Soil sampling 2: mixing the sampleWallaceville Eighty Year Anniversary StickersPlant breeders at workMan and woman standing in front of a fallen tree.Ray Brougham - 1Spaced plants at Grasslands - 6 of 7Flower bed in bloom, Campbell Block, RuakuraRyegrass - 8DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 7 - 18 April 1989Gateway to Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraForestry stock use - PineKeith Steele Ballantrae - B9Cows on a Waikato farmLotus crop in full flowerPalmerston North Show - 1 of 5W. HarrisSlash - Turitea stream - 2Valley floor waterway - 1950Flooding landscapeEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/575/3Sheep weighing. 4. Sheep exiting the weighing scalesEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/5Land Development - 4Ballantrae - sunny faceLotus uliginosus plotsDSIR - Grasslands News - November 1990 - Issue No. 3Soil Chemistry Laboratory - JarPetrie - 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