A farm business, from the start

eShepherd is backed by a name a lot of farmers already know. Gallagher started in 1938 in Hamilton, New Zealand, when inventor Bill Gallagher built his first electric fence units. They caught on fast across New Zealand farms, and the business grew from there into one of the country's best-known exporters.

Nearly a century on, Gallagher still calls Hamilton home. The campus there is where products are designed, developed and built, all on one site. That tight loop between the people who dream up the gear and the people who make it is a big part of why it holds up in the paddock.

Where your neckbands are made

eShepherd is built in that same place, to that same standard. Every neckband that ends up on your cattle is designed and assembled at Hamilton, not farmed out to a distant contract factory. It is the same vertical integration that has kept Gallagher's fencing and animal-management gear working in tough conditions for decades, now applied to virtual fencing.

That matters when the product lives outdoors, on a moving animal, through every season. It is built by a company that has spent its whole history making farm hardware survive the real world.

Proven, and growing fast

eShepherd is now in use across more than 14 countries, with strong uptake in North America and Australasia. More than 60,000 neckbands have come off the line in the first half of this year alone, and production is set to double in the second half. The product has been refined and redesigned along the way, shaped by feedback from real farms in very different systems around the world.

To keep up with that demand, Gallagher expanded its Hamilton production capacity in 2026. For you, the headline is simple: more neckbands, made sooner, with shorter waits.

Why timing matters

Getting neckbands when you need them is not a nice-to-have. In a lot of operations there is a narrow window to fit cattle out, and missing it can cost a season.

"This makes a huge difference to us being able to compete in current and new markets, and to continue delivering a great experience to our customers as demand grows," says Kate Thomason, Head of Customer & Sales Scaling for eShepherd.
"In places like the US and Canada especially, customers are working within pretty tight seasonal windows to get neckbands onto cattle during Spring, so being able to deliver on time really matters."

The short version

When you put eShepherd on your cattle, you are putting on gear made by a company that has been building for farmers since 1938, in the same New Zealand town where it all began. And there is now more of it, ready when you are.