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 ...

BUTTERNUT - The landscape near Butternut is a rural quilt of forests and farms. Typical of this area of northern Wisconsin, you can find a tamarack swamp and gray wolf tracks within a mile of a beef ...

MAPLE - The Soyring family has farmed this section of Douglas County since 1904. It's on the Lake Superior clay plain, a mostly flat shoreline region in Wisconsin and Michigan with reddish, clayey ...

MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - 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 ...

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 ...

Ranchers can set virtual boundaries that keep cattle in specific areas through collars around their necks. “Virtual fence does not replace the human being in the ranching operation,” said William ...

The stream at the corner of Mt. Pleasant Township area cattle farmer John D. Kitz’s property is surrounded by lush greenery. Native wildflowers and leafy trees stick up from the stream bank, and a ...

Combination panels have smaller openings at the bottom and are more expensive than cattle panels, but will hold baby lambs and cattle. Good livestock fencing surely makes good neighbors, and with the ...