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?

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.

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 ...

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - According to North Dakota Tourism, nearly 90% of the state’s land area is farms and ranches. Whether it’s sectioning farm land or keeping cattle where they need to be, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Cattle at a nature preserve in Muscatine County, Iowa, seen in 2025, are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a three-year pilot project on the technology. (Dale ...