If Dean Anderson of the USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range has his way, cows will wear these little “hats” that tell them where to go and we won’t have to build fences anymore!

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Kathy worked with the Bureau of Land Management for 12 years before founding Livestock for Landscapes in 2004. Her twelve years at the agency allowed her to pursue her goal of helping communities find ways to live profitably AND sustainably in their environment. She has been researching and working with livestock as a land management tool for over a decade. When she's not helping farmers, ranchers and land managers on-site, she writes articles, and books, and edits videos to help others turn their livestock into landscape managers.

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1 Comment

1. jeff ramseyer says:

   August 5, 2014 at 10:08 am

   Do you have any idea what a system like this might cost? I see this as a great way for people that don’t have access to pasture for rent, they can rent old/unused cropground that doesn’t currently have fences on it. If this can be adapted to goats, it would allow somebody to reclaim old pastures or cropground that is all grown up now, without the expense of goat-tight fences!!! This could possibly bring a ridiculous amount of empty-mostly worthless land in Southern Ohio back into pasture production. Yes, we can feed the world with grazing animals, no matter what the “experts” say!!! This device would make that a very real possiblity