Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a three-year pilot project on the technology. (Photo by Dale Maxson/The Nature ...
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 uses GPS collars, sounds and electrical cues to move cattle across a landscape. Along with saving ranchers ...
A solar-powered station creates a virtual fence on the East Moraine above Wallowa Lake to contain cattle grazing on property Wallowa County owns. WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — For the past month or so some ...
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 ...
PARSHALL, Colo. — When a Colorado rancher moved to the mountains, she suddenly had to play hide and seek with her cows – and found a solution to her wandering herd through a new kind of technology.
When cows overgraze it's bad for the soil and the climate. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is experimenting with virtual fencing to help avoid overgrazing. When animals eat too much grass in one ...
A new collar for another type of farming. In the south of England, a herd of about 10 Sussex cows is trialling a collar that contains a GPS chip. But the point isn’t to track where the cows are — the ...
Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.