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 ...

In the American state of Florida, rancher Jim Strickland can see his cows at any time, day or night. To do this, all he needs is his phone. Strickland uses virtual fencing to watch and control the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a ...

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 ...

For some ranching operations here in North Dakota, moving cattle around is now as easy as clicking a few buttons on a computer, saving both time and resources, thanks to virtual fencing.

Before Reed City cattle rancher Jack Thornton even got home, neighbors were posting on Facebook that someone’s longhorns got ...

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 ...

New technology called virtual fencing is catching on in Idaho and the West. It works like an invisible fence for pets, but at a much larger scale for livestock management. Carmen ranchers Chyenne and ...

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 Oregon State University and U.S. Department ...

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

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 ...

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 ...