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Research team member, CSIRO Livestock Industries’ Dr Caroline Lee, said the collars contain advanced software to identify when a cow is near a fence line and which signal should be emitted.

A fencing workshop hosted by the Sustainable Farming Association helped a group of livestock owners learn to install and maintain a fencing system to contain cattle and please the neighbors.

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Since the fence went up, the sheep population has recovered in the hills above Rancho Mirage. She said the preventable deaths of sheep in La Quinta seem like déjà vu. “We fenced them out.

Another concern is the sheep being hit by cars. A fence would help address those issues, Pert said, pointing to the success of a fence built in Rancho Mirage in 2002.

And virtual fencing, where livestock wear collars that vibrate when they get close to a wire in the ground—like an invisible fence for dogs—is being widely used.

The dingo fence was made to keep livestock safe and away from dingoes in the relatively fertile south-east corner of Australia.(Supplied: Wild Odyssey Productions)It is more than 5,600 kilometres ...