WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — For the past month or so some of the latest technology in livestock management has been in use at the East Moraine Community Forest in Wallowa County, but looking around the ...

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.

A high-tech, no-fence solution is teaching cattle to stay home on the range, University of Alberta research has found. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In a study that ...

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 cows wear special collars that keep them from ...

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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — It’s not uncommon for people living in colder climates to spend their winter evenings relaxing on a warm couch and catching up on their favorite shows. Jonathan Kilpatrick likes to ...

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 ...

Some producers have sought to repair damaged fences only to find stretched wire is brittle and breaks. The tornado cut a swath a half-mile wide across the county and other damage came from hail or ...

In portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin, farmers have struggled to protect their livestock from wolves. “I don’t think I know any farmers that haven’t had some kind of run in with the wolves, some more ...