Virtual Fence for Cattle Herd Management: Learning Curves & Opportunities

A virtual fence uses GPS collars and towers to create invisible movable barriers for cattle. It's an exciting technology--can you use it for intensive grazing? Keep cattle off sensitive streambeds? Save on hard fence costs? The possibilities are endless, but putting the technology into practice has a real learning curve. 

Listen in as Anna Shadbolt, a research associate at Colorado State AgNext, talks with Andy Lawrence, a fourth-generation rancher in Colorado, about their experience using virtual fence with Andy's herd over the summer of 2023. 

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