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To manage livestock and keep them in the proper areas or pastures or to graze a pasture rotationally, traditional fencing with wood, wire or steel, or even portable electric fencing, is one solution.

STREETER, N.D. — A large, longstanding feedlot in North Dakota until recent years was using only a wooden chute for processing cattle, says Lisa Pederson, livestock specialist for NDSU Extension. They ...

WASHINGTON — Fences are an effective stationary method of corralling livestock, but their sharp borders can create sudden changes in native grassland vegetation and the pollinators and birds that live ...

Five Missouri farmers are testing GPS-enabled collars that guide livestock with sound and mild shocks, reducing the need for traditional fences. The project, led by the University of Missouri’s Center ...

Wasatch County is considering a switch from a “fence-in” cattle grazing policy to a “fence-out” rule in some parts of the ...

Cattle wear Nofence collars, which use GPS tracking and mobile networks to communicate with virtual fence lines. The technology allows farmers to track cattle and change boundaries in real-time from ...

Across Nevada’s rangelands, hauling barbed wire and setting fence posts remains a necessary, albeit labor-intensive, task for ranchers. Now, with help from University of Nevada, Reno researchers, some ...