Virtual fencing is redefining grazing, using GPS collars and a mobile app to give producers flexible, real-time control and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key points A new paper examines three case studies of applying virtual fencing in commercial mixed cropping farms in southern Australia.It found ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

SASABE, Ariz.--If the effort to catch people illegally crossing the border here in the southern Arizona desert is a cat-and-mouse struggle, the Homeland Security Department says it has a smarter cat.