Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a ...

A study is starting soon from Texas Tech University researchers within the Department of Natural Resource Management, ...

It can be costly and time-consuming for ranchers to keep their cattle inside the pasture using just traditional and electric fencing, but researchers are looking into a possible virtual solution. The ...

Virtual fencing is an emerging technology in the grazing world, and more companies are entering the U.S. market, giving ...

For Questa-based rancher Ezequiel Rael, grazing livestock on the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument is a way of life.

New technology called “virtual fencing” is catching on in Idaho and the West. Virtual fencing works like an invisible fence for pets but at a much larger scale for livestock management. “I think it’s ...

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, ...

June 25, 2007 Building and maintaining fences for controlling livestock places a huge financial burden on agricultural producers worldwide, but is there really any need for all those posts and wires?

Livestock operations are among the biggest water polluters in the state — from manure dumped into pasture streams to all those hooves kicking up bottom sediment and eroding muddy stream banks.

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 ...