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While driving, have you ever wondered why there are so many fences to interrupt your soul-satisfying, wide-open-spaces experience? Until recently, that was the only way to keep livestock in their place, so to speak. But today’s wire fencing and posts soon will be augmented with virtual fencing that erases these visual barriers from the landscape.
