LARCHWOOD, IA (Dakota Information Now) – Karl Palmberg, proprietor of Sunlight and Rain Grass Fed Beef in Larchwood, has lately begun utilizing a brand new digital fencing know-how.
Palmberg has been following the evolution of digital fencing for near a decade, ready till the know-how superior and the worth improved earlier than giving it a shot. He settled on the Gallagher e-Shepherd system.
“The best way it really works is that the collar is across the animals’ necks, it is ready to give them an audible tone after which a shock if mandatory in the event that they get to the border that I set for them,” Palmberg.
He units the borders on his pc, doing a day’s value of fencing in below a minute, then the know-how takes care of the remaining.
“It has a lithium-ion batter in there and it has a mobile community as nicely so each ten minutes it connects to the mobile community and will get what essentially the most up-to-date border is after which it shuts off from the mobile community after which makes use of a GPS receiver to maintain it inside that border that I’ve set for it,” mentioned Palmberg.
Palmberg’s cattle are grass-fed, on a relentless rotation all through the property, making digital fencing a game-changer in his operation.
“The principle purpose that I did it’s to extend the nutrient worth and the consuming expertise for the grass-fed beef that we promote. After like two or three weeks, I truthfully can’t think about elevating cattle with out them already, and so I solely assume the know-how will get higher and cheaper over time. And so based mostly upon what I’ve seen, I believe that is going to be widespread fairly rapidly,” mentioned Palmberg.
Palmberg warns that digital fencing won’t be the answer for everybody.
“In case your major purpose is to simply control your cattle herd it’s in all probability not going to be value it, however in case you are totally vested and seeking to do excessive intensive rotational grazing with a regenerative agriculture bent then I believe the time financial savings and the power to have a extra sturdy paddock system then I believe it’s nicely value investigating,” mentioned Palmberg.
Though there was a little bit of a studying curve in coaching the cattle to the collars, thus far, Palmberg hasn’t had any beef with the brand new system.
“My creativeness is the restrict for a way I can rotate them and the way I can use these animals. And what these have completed is type of given me my life again, like I can now go on trip with my spouse and youngsters within the summertime, and I can go to a baseball recreation with out worrying about the place my cows are,” mentioned Palmberg.
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