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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Gully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringDr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysMt Hector hutGroynes. 1. Overflow at the groyneDynes Fulton (1875-1934)Banks PeninsulaBallantrae - plotsAerial application of Lindane by helicopterVegetable display - 2 of 2Cabbage treesEffect of twice-yearly shearing on fleece cottingClover - potsDSIR Council group portraitSheep at leisurePlots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiInvermay campus - 3 of 3Paddocks - LandscapeTara Hills lamb tailing - 3 of 9Ewes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks - 3 of 4Paddocks of Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraTIKI cattle squeezeJim Melville (1908-1984)Animal Production - 1991 - 1 of 6Percentage infection in plantsDuke of Edinburgh observing border dyke irrigation at WinchmoreGully control by bulldozing. 1. Bulldozing the headRuakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 2. South-east sectionPithomyces chartarum sporeRenee CarsonLely rotary harrow. 1. In actionJohn Gray (John) Robertson (1939-)DSIR - Insect ResearchMowing preparationChine removal machine: saw arm: leftMerino ram sale - 1988 - 7 of 7Ray Bailey - 1 of 2ASR 700 model 732 word processorGully control by bulldozing. 12. Small head developingMafTech fruit - 3 of 101940's Fire - 2 of 850 years of research and recreation at RuakuraAutoclave in Casein Laboratory, InvermayLevin Horticultural Field Day - 8 of 11Mob of cattle in a muddy paddockInvermay campus - 1 of 3Waiomanu hay barnLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 1. From the main entranceDSIR - Soil Survey Office Palmerston NorthHand pollinating - 2 of 2Tara Hills lamb tailing - 2 of 9
 
 
 
 
 
Buildings Campuses Cattle Clover Construction Cows Crops Data Diagrams Directors Diseases Ephemera Equipment Erosion Farm staff Farmers Farms Feeding Fertiliser Fields Glasshouses Graphs Grasses Grasslands Grazing Harvesting Horses Humour Insects Invermay Laboratories Lambs Landscapes Leaves MIRINZ Machinery MafTech Measuring Meetings Milking Observation Open Days Paddocks Plants Plots Publications Rams Ruakura Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Wheat Worms