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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Preparing turf plots of sowing - 2 of 2Clover inoculation - 2Animal Nutrition Unit - 4 of 10White Pine - forestVan Arche's land at Tuki Tuki Scientific lab glasswareLab studentsRyegrass - 9Roland M.W. SumnerTesting seed germinationGrasslands - Autumn/Winter - 1958Flame weeder. 1. Propane tanksFibre farming displayField day carrots - 3 of 7MafTech goats - 1 of 7Scientists at Grasslands - 2 of 2Hauptner Syringe - WallacevilleDrainage frame on a drained plot: close up: framed with index cardTuritea stream - 1966 - 1Mass Spectrometry Building - GrasslandsCocksfoot - spaced plantsRock tussockGrazing trial - Paddock 3Gorse - 3Two men in a fieldGleditsia - Te Puke - 6Whatawhata landscape. View 4Margot Forde - seeds - 2Flowering field% Respiration graph - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989Grasslands - main building room plan - 1966Ballantrae site aerial viewHut - Alex Knob trackBallantrae - plotsYoung pollen grainsHand pollinatingDSIR - Grasslands News - October 1990 - Issue No. 2DSIR Newsletter - Number 5 - Date: 27 August 1979David Ritchie and David BrownriggDr Mitchell - 3Ballantrae - B41Pasture treading effects - 2 of 9Grasslands Nui - perennial ryegrassMale with a ram wearing a hatMafTech animals - 7 of 7Taita Experimental Station. 2.Packard 7201 Radio Chromatogram ScannerTest tubes holding plants - 5Prairie grass - single plants - Aorangi
 
 
 
 
 
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