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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Microscopic plant cell - 3Bill KearnsSorting grassAlex Knob - Plant - 7MafTech display - 4 of 4MafTech animals - 5 of 7Propagation tray - 1 of 2Levy - 6Cattle feeding on silage - 5 of 6Close up - plant - 4Dr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News No. 21 - 1988Orthopterous eggsWheat trial reports: Reporoa, M.A. SickfoldForma Scientific 1024 Anaerobic Chamber with Incubator Glove BoxJohn Lancashire (1935-2015)Clover - stemTe Awa aerial landscape viewEngineering Workshop - image No. 93/219Clover - 1958 - 2Ballantrae - B43Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 7 of 13Digitaria sanguinalisBees and pollination - 2 of 2Rumen - 1Display boards - Grasses - 1 of 3Ryegrass in tube - 2Seed crop - BaBallantrae - plotsMr. W.P.H. SaxtonSheep's teeth. 2. LongLotus - Maku root developmentGrasslands construction - 2B&W clover plant with tagFarm types by output percentageRobin S. ScottPlots: G. Manawa, G. Huia and G. RuanuiSheep in farm yard pensRyegrass - 1Airplane - 3 menTe Wera & WhangaL. Corkill - 3Red clover strainsTaita Experimental Station. 10.Pasture treading effects - 9 of 9Models - ScienceMerino ram sale - 1987 - 3 of 5Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/7O. col & O. lacunsa (closeup foliage) + snowgrassProduction rate of crops and water use
 
 
 
 
 
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