Hill country · Hawkes Bay, NZ
Hereford mob · in rain
Autumn hills · extensive country
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Precision cattle control. Bulls included.

Fence anywhere. From anywhere.

Draw a pasture on your phone. Your herd is there by morning. No posts. No wire. Just one operating system, working the country with you.

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Stock welfare, built in

Move the herd before you finish your cup.

Redraw the boundary. Schedule the move. Neckbands receive the update over cellular. Cattle learn in 3–10 days. Audio cues first, pulse rarely.

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Walk the pasture without walking the fence.

Every head. Every boundary. One screen.

Live GPS positions updated every 15 minutes. Breach alerts the moment an animal crosses. Manage every animal like it's your only animal.

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Rotational grazing with precision.

New pasture. New growth. No guesswork.

Set a rotation. Rest the country. Come back to grass that's worth grazing. See the difference on your bottom line.

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Manage every animal like it's your only animal

The platform that grows with your country.

eShepherd is the base. Pasture and Vision Weigh extend it. One platform for Precision Livestock Management™, three tools, all on the same animals and the same land.

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Virtual fencing

A remote shepherd for your cattle

eShepherd virtual fencing puts you in control of your cattle, bulls included, without lifting a post or rolling out a wire.

Using solar-powered, GPS-enabled livestock neckbands and a simple app, you can fence, track, and move your cattle with ease, saving hours of mustering and fence work every week. Do it all, 24/7, from anywhere. Shift mobs, rotate grazing, and protect your land with virtual fencing built for the modern beef producer.

Priced for pastures, not high subscriptions

Coverage anywhere
your country runs.

We take care of the data. You take care of the animals.
Running on farms in 20+ countries today.

Cellular IoT Private LoRa
70+ countries
150+ carrier networks

Backed by 88+ years of Gallagher


eShepherd is built on Gallagher Animal Management, trusted at the edge of the country since 1938. And it is bigger than virtual fencing. The eShepherd Farm Operating System™ senses what is happening across your operation, acts on it and learns, delivering the insights that drive innovation, efficiency and sustainable growth across the whole production ecosystem.

An eShepherd virtual fencing neckband on a grazing cow
Rolling green pasture on hill country
A camera lens up close
Cattle drinking at a water trough
Auto Weigher
HR0 EID Tag Reader
Solar Lithium Energizers

Events

See us
in person.

Field days, shows and expos where you can meet the team and see eShepherd up close.

3

days away

NATGLC's Grazing Toolbox Course

Manhattan, Kansas

Seminar
10

days away

Nebraska Grazing Conference

Kearney, NE

Conference
17

days away

Alberta Virtual Fencing Field Day

Cochrane, AB

Field day
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Customer stories

See eShepherd in the field.

Producers across four countries running real herds, real terrain, real seasons. Catch the latest stories from the people putting the system to work.

Deidre Tigue talks with an RFDTV reporter with cattle in the background wearing eShepherd neckbands US
In the newsdrought management

Deidre & Alex Tigue

Virginia, USA

RFDTV covers Blue Ridge Genetics' beef operation in southwest Virginia as they manage their pastures in drought conditions.

“One thing we were really lacking was fencing infrastructure. This technology allows us to get our animals to graze where we want them to graze and keep them out of areas that we may not want them to be in. There's a lot of flexibility. ”

Mob of Limousin and Angus-cross cows in WA pasture with eShepherd neckbands fitted AU
Limousin studRegenerative

Kevin Nettleton

South West, WA, Australia

Limousin breeding stud running cattle, chickens and regenerative pastures in WA's south west.

“Our cows and calves have never done as well as they have since we've had eShepherd.”

Mob of Angus cattle wearing eShepherd neckbands grazing residual crop in WA AU
Cropping integratedRotational grazing

Simon Fowler

Condingup, Esperance, WA, Australia

50,000 hectares of cropping integrated with cattle and sheep — virtual fencing brought the rotation cattle never had.

“We've only been using eShepherd since January, but it has been a game changer for us.”

Hawkes Bay hill country in early morning light NZ
8 mobs of bullsHill country

Mathew & Gemma Barham

Hawkes Bay, NZ

Precision bull grazing at scale on Hawkes Bay hill country.

“It's amazing how quick the cattle learn to stay behind the line.”

Matt Quaedvlieg and his wife at Barrington Ranch holding an eShepherd neckband CA
In the newsTRU partnership

Matt Quaedvlieg

Keremeos, BC, Canada

Castanet Kamloops covers Barrington Ranch's partnership with a TRU student to be among the first in Canada to roll out eShepherd virtual fencing.

Ryan and Mitch Gravenhof in crop field with eShepherd cows US
Cow calfCropping

Ryan & Mitch Gravenhof

Worthington, Minnesota

Cow calf production, cropping, and sheep. All managed with a strong eye toward stewardship, efficiency, and long-term sustainability.

“I’ve always had rotational grazing in the back of my mind. But the practicality of cross fencing creek pastures just wasn’t there. When eShepherd came out, I thought, this is the answer.”

Mob of Angus and red Angus cows grazing in dandelion-rich Alberta pasture CA
RegenerativeDrought management

Nick Kunec

Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada

Ultra-high-density rotational grazing on dry Alberta country — 300 animal units, four moves a day, half-acre paddocks.

“It meant I could move four times a day on half-acre paddocks with about 300 animal units. That's 600,000 to 700,000 pounds per acre.”

Black-and-white dairy heifers wearing eShepherd neckbands on lush South Canterbury pasture NZ
Dairy heifersIntensive grazing

Nigel & Gina Gardner

South Canterbury, NZ

Intensive heifer grazing across 350 ha — Nigel used to move twenty break fences a day. Now he moves zero.

“It worked perfectly. I checked with my farm manager and the mobs had moved onto the new breaks no issues at all.”

Vannie Collins among Las Islas Ranch cattle across Texas brush country. US
Extensive beefTexas brush country

Vannie Collins

Texas, USA

Freeing up labour to graze more intensively across Texas country.

“eShepherd has really freed up a lot of my labor and allowed me to more intensively manage.”

Cattle approaching a Gallagher StrongBó Auto Weigher in pasture NZ
Auto WeigherPerformance data

Dion Kilmister

Wairarapa, NZ

eShepherd controls where cattle graze. The Auto Weigher measures how they respond. Together — a real-time feedback loop on every grazing decision.

“We managed our entire grazing operation remotely from the Gold Coast, shifting virtual fences and making feed decisions daily based on live weight data.”

Aerial view of a Taranaki river flat with striped grazing pattern beside the river bend NZ
Bull beefCell grazing

George Hardwick-Smith

Taranaki, NZ

Turning a hard-to-manage 30 ha river flat into a streamlined, high-performing bull beef block.

“I can be in beautiful sunny Wanaka… just sit down and do it. It makes it really easy.”

Mob of Wagyu-cross females wearing eShepherd neckbands on Burdekin savanna country AU
Reef catchmentSet-stocking replaced

Bristow Hughes

Burdekin River catchment, QLD, Australia

Eliminating fencing infrastructure to protect waterways flowing to the Great Barrier Reef.

“We're protecting the catchment without putting a single post in the ground.”

Aerial view of cattle near a virtual fence boundary US
1,500 AngusNative prairie

Nick Jorgensen

South Dakota, USA

Rotational grazing at scale across 15,000 acres of native prairie.

“We decided to leverage virtual fencing because of the physical and logistical challenges of implementing rotational grazing at scale.”

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Latest releases

Always shipping.

New features that make eShepherd work better for the country you run.

JUN 2026

WebApp UI Refresh

The eShepherd web app just got better — faster navigation, cleaner screens, and a more powerful way to run your operation.

MAR 2026

Change Mob & HR0 Connectivity

Move animals between mobs directly from the app without needing the web app.

MAR 2026

Flat & Critical Battery Alerts

Push notification alerts when a neckband battery reaches flat or critical levels.

MAR 2026

Manage Mobs & Lasso

Create mobs and move animals into them using lasso selection on the mobile app.

FEB 2026

Animal Tracks on Mobile

View individual animal movement tracks for the last 24 hours in the mobile app.

FEB 2026

Improved VP Borders

New border styles for Virtual Paddocks to clearly distinguish their status at a glance.

JAN 2026

Animal Notes

Add and view freeform notes on individual animal records from both card and list views.

DEC 2025

Improved Animal Cards

Refreshed animal cards, map layers, and VP colours on mobile to match the web app.

DEC 2025

VP Search

Quickly find any Virtual Paddock by typing its name, with instant filtering as you type.

NOV 2025

Card Layout for Animals

Switch between table, card, and detailed card views for animal and neckband lists.

NOV 2025

Copy VP on Mobile

Duplicate an existing Virtual Paddock on mobile to reuse layouts without starting fresh.

OCT 2025

Scheduled Moves on Mobile

Create and edit scheduled mob moves directly from the mobile app while out in the paddock.

Offline VP

Neckbands store two VP configurations and switch automatically when out of coverage.