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 ...

And livestock grazing is a piece of that ... could be looking at $18,000 a linear mile to build four-strand barbed wire fencing. And typically, you’re talking several miles, not one or two.

With wood fences, the standard spacing is eight feet. Chain link fences are stronger so the posts can be as far apart as 10 feet. Posts for wire boundary or cattle fences can be 25 feet apart. You can ...

The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI) is working to assist farmers who suffered catastrophic losses ...

But after he bought the property, Harrison started construction a miles-long, eight-foot-high barbed wire fence, claiming it ...

Old-time cowboys also lived by the principle that the great prairie was common property and cattle could run free under the law of "open range." Barbed wire was a disruptive invention and a fight ...

From pasture and stall space to supplies, here are ways the Upstate can help farm animals relocated because of hurricanes ...

Dyer Countians have already delivered food, water, clothing, and other essentials to the storm victims of Helene that ripped through Florida and wrought destruction and death in several states, ...

Regional veterinary laboratories (RVLs) in Ireland have recently investigated a number of dead cattle that they discovered ...

but it took a Johnson County animal control officer to recently rescue a coyote caught in barbed wire fence — and it was all caught on tape. On Sept. 24, Deputy Dwayne Shoop, a former Johnson ...

"The animals had unequivocal symptoms of having been fulminated by electric discharges which had been transmitted by the wire fence", said the official report. The loss of cattle was estimated in ...

From virtual fencing to cellphone apps, Bureau of Land Management is leaning into ways tech can help users navigate ...