For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh ...

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 ...

LAKELAND — From his home or wherever he has his laptop computer, Jim Strickland is herding cattle. Strickland, manager of Blackbeard’s Ranch in Myakka City, is one of the only, if not the only, ...

A new high-tech "virtual fencing system" is being successfully trialled at a farm near Bath. Somer Valley Farms is based at Peasedown St John and specialises in traditional rare breeds such as Red ...

MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa appear to roam the land freely — no fences or cowboys on horseback patrol their movement. Instead, these ...

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A Southwest Florida rancher is controlling cattle on his 5,000-acre property with an invisible fence as part of research exploring ways to keep livestock from trampling environmentally sensitive lands ...

Key points A new paper examines three case studies of applying virtual fencing in commercial mixed cropping farms in southern Australia.It found ...

LONEROCK — Rancher Anthony Campbell cut fences as the Lone Rock Fire raged so cattle could escape the flames, but didn’t know exactly where cows were grazing. “It was pretty stressful,” he said. His ...