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 cows wear special collars that keep them from ...

GPS collars on cattle are letting ranchers remove fences in the West. That’s good for wildlife and for the land.

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 ...

NSW farmers have been given the green light to use virtual fencing, providing an option over traditional posts and wires. Here is how it works.

The technology, Taylor and Bennett point out, won’t rid the West of all its fence lines. Wyoming is a fence out state, so ...

BURNS, Ore. — Sometimes, the best fence is an invisible one. Researchers from Oregon State University and USDA have published a study showing that virtual fencing is a useful potential tool to help ...

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 — For the past month or so some of the ...

When cows eat too much grass in one spot, it is bad for the soil, and it is bad for the climate. There's been a centuries-old solution for that problem - cowboys. But the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

Recently the team completed the Large Animal Rescue Course with @ECFRS. Today they put their skills into practice when they came across a cow with its head stuck in a ...

When cows overgraze it's bad for the soil and the climate. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is trying new technology to help avoid overgrazing: virtual fencing. When cows eat too much grass in one ...