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 ...

A high-tech, no-fence solution is teaching cattle to stay home on the range, University of Alberta research has found. That's a big step forward for potentially helping cattle ranchers graze their ...

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 there.

Last spring, Alan Williams received a federal grant to replace some fencing on his cattle ranch in southern Idaho. His outfit is based in Delta, Utah, but he and his brother, Jared, who are fourth ...

In November, when Anna Shadbolt traveled to her family ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills for the holidays, she kept noticing opportunities to incorporate a new technology she is studying as a research ...

Ms. Nijhuis is the author of “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.” She reported from Brewster, Wash. Sept. 26, 2023 “Wherever a farm may be located, or whatever may be its ...

Barbed wire sucks!” Pat Todd shouted, frustrated as she untangled spools of the material on a private ranch in the Madison Valley on a windy, late-August day.