Virtual fencing, a novel concept being tested by ranchers and technology companies, employs GPS units attached to cows or ...

A special collar is one of the keys to how a virtual fence works with livestock. New technology called “virtual fencing” is catching on in Idaho and the West. Virtual fencing works like an invisible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKELAND — From his home or wherever he has his laptop computer, Jim Strickland is herding cattle. Strickland, manager of Blackbeard’s Ranch in Myakka City, is one of the only, if not the only, ...

The use of virtual fencing to manage cattle grazing on sagebrush rangelands has the potential to create fuel breaks needed to help fight wildfires, a recent study found. The use of virtual fencing to ...

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 ...

A new collar for another type of farming. In the south of England, a herd of about 10 Sussex cows is trialling a collar that contains a GPS chip. But the point isn’t to track where the cows are — the ...

A high-tech, no-fence solution is teaching cattle to stay home on the range, University of Alberta research has found. That's a big step forward for potentially helping cattle ranchers graze their ...

CDU researchers Beth Penrose and Sunil Kadri are exploring the impact of virtual fences on NT farms.Cattle producers in ...

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