Virtual fencing uses GPS collars, sounds and electrical cues to move cattle across a landscape. Along with saving ranchers ...

The “Virtual Fence Foundations” webinar series offers a chance to hear firsthand from producers and companies working with ...

Cattle at a nature preserve in Muscatine County, Iowa, seen in 2025, are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a three-year pilot project on the technology. (Dale ...

The most dangerous words in ranching may be, “It’s always been done this way.” Marty Edwards knew this when he took over his ...

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 ...

Stomprud Ranch of Meade County, South Dakota, was selected as the 2025 South Dakota Leopold Conservation Award recipient. “I ...

The cattle wear GPS collars that keep them in designated grazing areas, which could prevent them from going into wetlands or ...

Pasture Management specializes in manufacturing and distributing agricultural-style fencing for livestock, such as horses, ...

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 ...

Land managers hope a barbed-wire fence under construction in the Caribou National Forest's Mink Creek Area will keep cows away from several popular trails while also protecting 2,000 acres within a ...

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.