To manage livestock and keep them in the proper areas or pastures or to graze a pasture rotationally, traditional fencing with wood, wire or steel, or even portable electric fencing, is one solution.

Ranchers can set virtual boundaries that keep cattle in specific areas through collars around their necks. “Virtual fence does not replace the human being in the ranching operation,” said William ...

The 2024 Lonerock Fire burned over 137,000 acres in Gilliam, Wheeler and Morrow counties, much of it rangeland. Ranchers whose lands were destroyed faced a common yet costly hurdle to wildfire ...

Grazing cattle at the Land of the Swamp White Oak Preserve in Iowa roam without traditional fencing, using virtual fence systems as an ecological management tool. (Elizabeth Owens photo). When heavy ...

Dustin Taylor left the gate open when he kicked hundreds of cows into one of his pastures this fall. That particular gate had been a source of endless frustration. It’s in the middle of an elk ...

Virtual fencing manages livestock using GPS-linked collars to train animals to stay within a set boundary, similar to an invisible dog fence. Coupled with the removal of existing barbed-wire fencing, ...

STREETER, N.D. — A large, longstanding feedlot in North Dakota until recent years was using only a wooden chute for processing cattle, says Lisa Pederson, livestock specialist for NDSU Extension. They ...

NSW farmers have been given the green light to use virtual fencing, providing an option over traditional posts and wires. Here is how it works.

Federal officials plan to start construction within weeks on a new "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border that they expect to stretch across most of the nearly 2,000-mile frontier within five ...