MISSOULA, Mont. — Ranchers across the country are looking toward new technology to help sustain their livelihood. Now, one company is introducing virtual fencing to help improve ranchers workload and ...

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 ...

Cody Zilverberg, consulting scientist at Dakota Lakes Research Farm says they have been utilizing virtual fencing on 75 cattle. It has worked well with their grazing management practices.

Across Europe, livestock graze across vast pastures often bordered by miles of wire and the occasional jolt of electric current. But what if those fences were no longer there? The idea of virtual ...

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 ...

Cowboys in the American West are increasingly managing cattle not just from horseback, but from smartphones and with ...

"Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play," goes the venerable Western folk song "Home on the Range." Fences strung throughout the western United States to ...

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 ...

Livestock producers often ask how they can justify the cost of virtual fencing. The Oct. 24 session of the “Virtual Fence Foundations” webinar series offers a chance to hear firsthand from producers ...

WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — For the past month or so some of the latest technology in livestock management has been in use at the East Moraine Community Forest in Wallowa County, but looking around the ...

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 ...