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I'd love to have this for goats or sheep. We have a bunch of trees and other vegetation on our property so fences would be a pain. If I could set up virtual fences and shift them around the yard it would be fantastic.

There are a lot of places where I see complicated fencing put up to manage cattle in parks where this would be extremely nice as well. Instead of breaking up a nice park with barbed wire to protect areas you could geo-fence them off.

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I would love to see this kind of technology take off. In the western US there is barbed wire everywhere, even on public land.

Yes, drives me insane when I'm out in the middle of nowhere enjoying a view only to stumble across a stretch of barbed wire. I'm skeptical public grazing is a great use of public lands regardless, but now that we have this technology it should be mandatory that anyone who grazes on public lands use this instead of adding more fencing.

Cattle shouldn't be grazing on public land in Western USA, period. Even if this technology worked over such vast spaces (I'm sure it doesn't), it would be a mistake to let it become another excuse for people like Cliven Bundy to break the law.

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