Ken Schumann says officials inspected his property for years without raising concerns before ruling this year that his lot is too small to legally keep goats.

Technology enabling virtual fences for pets is now being adapted for livestock. Ranchers near Yellowstone National Park are testing its ability to keep cows safe from grizzly bear attacks.

It cost 10 times the local rate and used enough steel to wrap around a small city, but for pastoralists in NSW's far north-west, the government's $6.9 million wild dog fence is little more than a gold ...