The future of grazing management is here. Virtual cattle fencing, where farmers draw GPS boundaries to herd cattle, has the potential to upend the way ranchers ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

New technology called “virtual fencing” is catching on in Idaho and the West. Virtual fencing works like an invisible fence for pets but at a much larger scale for livestock management. “I think it’s ...

GPS collars on cattle are letting ranchers remove fences in the West. That’s good for wildlife and for the land.

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.

Multiple cattle escaped through a vandalized fence from the Morongo Indian Reservation this weekend, only to turn up munching grass next to Interstate 10, authorities said. "There was a hole in the ...

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 ...