Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them. Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space ...

You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and ... designed and patented a type of wire fencing known as barbed wire. In a short time, his invention ...

Virtual fencing is still mostly in the research and experimental stage. But it is being used on the ground in Utah and ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing a mysterious group that built a barbed-wire fence around 1,400 acres ... “These lands support long-standing livestock grazing for local ranchers and ...

Anyone who’s traveled the grounds of a cattle ranch will tell you there ... It uses a spool of wire as the gate, lowering it for vehicle access with the use of a remote control.

By Marlowe Starling In the Orinoco River Basin spanning Venezuela and Colombia, biodiversity and agriculture are at odds.