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?

STRONG CITY, Kan.—Cole Mushrush does two things when he wakes up each morning at the family ranch here in the Flint Hills—make a pot of coffee, then fire up his laptop to see if any cows have wandered ...

Managing livestock with fences and gates is so medieval. The future, says one USDA scientist, is equipping cows with GPS units and coraling them via augmented reality. It may sound crazy, but it could ...

It’s a rainy day on Pat Luark’s ranch, north of Eagle. He drives through the mud to a stretch of public land his cattle graze. He and Kristy Wallner, a rangeland specialist with the U.S. Bureau of ...

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 cows wear special collars that keep them from ...

Ranchers can set virtual boundaries that keep cattle in specific areas through collars around their necks. “Virtual fence does not replace the human being in the ranching operation,” said William ...

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 ...