NextGen Fencing: The Future of Pasture Management

Virtual fences represent an exciting new technology at the forefront of future range management. The collars use solar power and satellite positioning technology to contain livestock without the need for a physical barrier.
The distribution of the collared livestock can be carefully and precisely controlled via software interface: grazing cells can be adaptively moved or modified according to conditions and vegetation growth. What does this mean for land management, wildlife movement, and the future of ranching?
Join us at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 18 for our fifth and final session in our 2021 Rural Resilience webinar series: "Ranching for a resilient future: virtual fencing for land, livestock and landscape health" with Leo Barthelmess, Barthelmess Ranch and Todd Parker, Vence Inc.
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[@poerava]

EShepherd in Australia is well tested

[@anthonydooley3616]

I can't imagine it works better than a tight electric fence and I'm sure this costs a hell of a lot more.

[@nicholaskrick1782]

Maybe, but when one cow tears down that tight fence, the whole mob gets out. Or a calf crawls under and gets spooked taking down the wire, then the whole herd follows. Lot's of time and frustration dealing with that...

[@sarahfrancis9347]

After researching it appears to be about the same in labor/time cost of daily cross fencing movement, and/or permanent fencing with Hotwire by the mile in annual start up cost for 50-100 head of cattle or more. In addition to location and grazing density movement management it provides illness prediction data, some even help with calving data and grazing intake, rest and time of grazing per individual cow, temperature and studies how the collar and pace of the cow moves in comparison to make management data predictions- so a lot of nutrition help data and health data for management of cattle that help save time and help with better planning and time and resource management planning and disease and illness progression prevention data… a cross fence mobile electric paddock fence doesn’t provide that.
It won’t eliminate current methods it will enhance and save time so that ranchers can spend more time doing other animal stewardship and land management tasks and use current ways as training backup and general backup etc it also greatly increases the capacity to graze on blm or rural remote locations of leased or private lands in a more beneficial and easier managed way after researching we are going to give it a go!

[@beckybowlds8282]

I am interested!…How do I get in touch with a real person regarding this product? Are there people who have used these collars for long enough to be able to evaluate Venice performance.

[@RanchersStewardshipAlliance]

ranchstewards.org/contact-us/

[@lyudmylasharma7768]

how long do the batteries last?

[@RanchersStewardshipAlliance]

It depends, but somewhere around 8-12 months.

[@NCRonrad]

Great tool to get folks to take on more bison (you know, instead of genocide…)

[@dylancyprian843]

And calves go everywhere? A dog gps collar is 200$ I can only imagine how much these are, silly!