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 ...

WASHINGTON — Fences are an effective stationary method of corralling livestock, but their sharp borders can create sudden changes in native grassland vegetation and the pollinators and birds that live ...

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.

Pete Schreder is a Wallowa County extension agent with the Oregon State University Extension Service. He joins us with more details on the emerging technology. Note: The following transcript was ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move. Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings.

Electric fence systems or even barbed wire were once considered innovations in grazing management. Within the past few years, virtual fencing companies have become prominent and their products could ...

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 ...