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No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing

For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of Missouri's Center for Regenerative Agriculture, that chore is becoming a thing of the past.

No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing
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For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of Missouri's Center for Regenerative Agriculture, that chore is becoming a thing of the past.

Originally published at Phys.org

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