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

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Ranchers and researchers tout futuristic technology's benefit to working lands and wildlife. The post Virtual fences keep ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When cows eat too much grass in one spot, it is bad for the soil, and it is bad for the climate. There's been a centuries-old solution for that problem - cowboys. But the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

When animals eat too much grass in one spot, it's bad for the soil and, now we know, the climate. For centuries, we've had shepherds and cowfolks to regulate their flocks and herds and, well, the like ...

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