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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dave Swain receives funding from Meat and Livestock Australia. Climate change and the global population boom continue to put pressure on the agriculture industry. However, new technologies could ...

Ranchers turn to virtual fencing to save on labor, help prevent predator conflicts and get rid of barbed wire to open up ...

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.

Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways in which ...

Virtual fencing technology has been approved for commercial use in two states, which has been welcomed by rural lobby groups.