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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
 
Sheep grazing paddocks - 7 of 12First deer to arrive at InvermaySeed headsMafTech - 4 of 18Demolishing the glasshouseNo. 1 type willow mattress. 3. Seven months after completionBiochemical Processing Centre - 31Scientist inspecting sheep's teethKaikohe Farm 1959 - 13 of 13Man driving a tractor in fieldMerino ram sale - 1987 - 4 of 5DSIR - Grasslands News - February 1992 - Issue No. 13Waiomanu hay barnAerial dusting - 2Camping beside river% of full stainable pollen - 1 of 2Rainfall at Te Awa - 1948-1968David Ritchie and David BrownriggTordon spray trial - 4 of 5Mr. Corkill at work - 2Pipe installation - 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 15Sheep tethering using paunch strapsHaymaking - 1Batt street - Palmerston NorthL. Corkill - 3Ballantrae dam - 8Mr. Thurston - 3Turitea stream in flood. 7. Stranded carTrees growing below cliff faceBiochemical Processing Centre - 40Prof Hudson from Massey - 1 of 2DSIR Newsletter - Number 14 - Date: 28 January 1980Sheep with tripletsMAFTech News - Date: June 1990Engineering Workshop - 1Ballantrae - B51Red cloverPithomyces chartarumOpening of new wingCut section - tree branchGorse - 3Large group portraitG. Latch - 3Engineering Workshop - 16Concrete culvertEngineering workshop - 53Clover flowersClover - flower - 1Aorangi Farm Open Day. 6.
 
 
 
 
 
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