June 25, 2007 Building and maintaining fences for controlling livestock places a huge financial burden on agricultural producers worldwide, but is there really any need for all those posts and wires?

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 ...

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.

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.

Combination panels have smaller openings at the bottom and are more expensive than cattle panels, but will hold baby lambs and cattle. Good livestock fencing surely makes good neighbors, and with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rancher Wes Johnson, from the left, visits with Voyageurs Wolf Project researchers Austin Homkes and Tom Gable near a section of new fence on Johnson’s ranch north of Orr on Tuesday. A collaborative ...

Therefore, WWF-Mongolia’s specialists started to test such method in Baatarkhairkhan Mountain of Khovd aimag, Altai-Sayan Ecoregion’s Mongolia part. A survey by WWF-Mongolia demonstrated high ...