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

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

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 Zealand unicorn Halter, founded by the son of farmers, Craig Piggott, is one of the fastest-growing players in the ...

Eighteen cattle ranchers in the Mountain West region are partnering with a carbon credit company to make their land healthier ...

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 ...

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?

Black Angus cattle have vanished from multiple ranches, and now deputies believe the animals were stolen, not lost.

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.

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 ...