Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a three-year pilot project on the technology. (Photo by Dale Maxson/The Nature ...

Virtual fencing technology employs GPS‐enabled collars to create electronic boundaries for livestock management. By replacing conventional physical barriers with digital cues, including audio warnings ...

Virtual fencing is expected to change that by allowing more frequent and controlled grazing moves - potentially every six to ...

South Australian farmers will soon be able to use virtual fencing to move livestock out of the path of bushfires after the technology was formally legalised in the state last week. The system, which ...

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 ...

Across Europe, livestock graze across vast pastures often bordered by miles of wire and the occasional jolt of electric current. But what if those fences were no longer there? The idea of virtual ...

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 ...

Pete Schreder is a Wallowa County extension agent with the Oregon State University Extension Service. He joins us with more details on the emerging technology. Note: The following transcript was ...

Virtual fencing manages livestock using GPS-linked collars to train animals to stay within a set boundary, similar to an invisible dog fence. Coupled with the removal of existing barbed-wire fencing, ...

"Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play," goes the venerable Western folk song "Home on the Range." Fences strung throughout the western United States to ...