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Real paddocks.Real results.

From Cape York to Texas, here's how producers are using eShepherd day to day.

17 Customer stories4 Countries

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17  Stories
Black-and-white dairy heifers wearing eShepherd neckbands on lush South Canterbury pasture

South Canterbury, NZ

Nigel & Gina Gardner

Operation
800 dairy heifers · 150 jersey bulls · 90 beef steers
Head
1,040
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

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

OutcomeMobs shifted from a phone, even from a holiday in Australia. More brain space for the rest of the business.

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Russell Proffit

King Country, NZ

Russell & Mavis Proffit

King Country

Operation
1,000 ha mixed hill country
Head
1,100
Scale
1,000, 10,000 ha

“We've had eShepherd for not even two years yet, and the gains are already there. I wouldn't be without it now”

OutcomeMore control over pasture. More options across the farm. Time saved to put towards other things.

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Ryan and Mitch Gravenhof in crop field with eShepherd cows

Worthington, Minnesota, United States

Ryan & Mitch Gravenhof

Gravenhof Farms

Operation
Cow calf and cropping
Head
150
Scale
1,000, 10,000 ha

“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.”

OutcomeSolving challenges that traditional fencing can't especially in creek bottom pastures prone to flooding, erosion, and continuous maintenance.

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

South West, WA, Australia

Kevin Nettleton

Nettleton Limousin Stud

Operation
50 Limousin cows + 13 yearling heifers
Head
63
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

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

OutcomePasture surplus where there used to be a shortage. Calving monitored from the kitchen. Mustering done by drawing on a phone.

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Graham & Byrdie Leaming

Manawahe, NZ

Graham Leaming

Manawahe

Operation
60 neckbands across 4 properties
Head
60
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

“The technology is beyond the wildest dreams, certainly of my parents and even for me. And for it to be available to someone like me with a fairly small operation, I feel very grateful.”

OutcomeMore grass in front of the cattle, fewer fences to move. A simpler way to manage a one-man (and one dog) operation.

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Cattle approaching a Gallagher StrongBó Auto Weigher in pasture

Wairarapa, NZ

Dion Kilmister

Operation
Beef finishing · eShepherd + Auto Weigher
Scale
1,000, 10,000 ha

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

Outcome14 tonnes of feed grown, utilisation lifted from 78% toward 95%. A drop from 1.5 kg/day to 0.2 kg/day caught in days, not weeks.

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Hawkes Bay hill country in early morning light

Hawkes Bay, NZ

Mathew & Gemma Barham

Mangatarata Station

Operation
8 mobs of bulls
Head
1,020
Scale
1,000, 10,000 ha

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

OutcomeCattle on their new break by 7am every morning. Saved labour, tighter rotations, no posts driven for 18 months.

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Mob of Wagyu-cross females wearing eShepherd neckbands on Burdekin savanna country

Burdekin River catchment, QLD, Australia

Bristow Hughes

Strathalbyn Station

Operation
577 Wagyu-cross female beef cattle
Head
577
Scale
10,000+ ha

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

OutcomeCattle held off riparian zones during regrowth. Underutilised pasture brought back into rotation. Project funded by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

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Aerial view of cattle near a virtual fence boundary

South Dakota, USA

Nick Jorgensen

Jorgensen Land & Cattle

Operation
1,500 Angus
Head
1,500
Scale
10,000+ ha

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

OutcomeMob moves now happen in 30 minutes instead of two days. Six sub-paddocks per quarter section, all on a single map.

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Deidre Tigue talks with an RFDTV reporter with cattle in the background wearing eShepherd neckbands

Virginia, USA

Deidre & Alex Tigue

Blue Ridge Genetics

Operation
Beef
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

“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.”

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

Condingup, Esperance, WA, Australia

Simon Fowler

Chilwell Farms

Operation
2,000 Angus + 30,000 ewes on 50,000 ha
Head
2,000
Scale
10,000+ ha

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

OutcomeRotational cells inside 150-ha cropping paddocks. Virtual confinement pens built without a single post. Welfare alerts that catch trouble the same hour it happens.

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

Texas, USA

Vannie Collins

Las Islas Ranch

Operation
Extensive beef
Head
8,000
Scale
10,000+ ha

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

OutcomeThree full-time roles redirected from fence maintenance to herd management. Moves that used to take a day take an hour.

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Dalton Wright, Blair Hunewill, and Leslie Hunewill stand in front of a watering point with cattle in the background

California/Nevada, United States

Hunewill Ranch

Leslie Hunewill, Blair Hunewill, Dalton Wright

Operation
Beef cattle on public land
Scale
10,000+ ha

“Labor is one of the biggest costs on any outfit, and the fact that we've been able to reduce that expense by being more efficient when we gather and move cattle has been a game changer for us.”

OutcomeCut multi-day cattle gathers down to six hours, kept cattle off the highway entirely, and opened up land that had gone unused for generations

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Lee Wasland hand feeding a cow in green field

Wallace, SD, United States

Lee Wasland

L&M Land and Cattle

Operation
Beef
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

“In some of our rougher topography and high-water and low-water areas, we looked into virtual fencing as a way to enhance and capitalize on more grazing opportunities in those areas without the need for physical fence.”

Outcome increased harvest efficiency to 35-40% utilization

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

Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada

Nick Kunec

Operation
300 cow ultra-high-density mob
Head
300
Scale
1,000, 10,000 ha

“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.”

OutcomeAvoided destocking through five sub-10-inch rainfall years. Brush cleared without sprays. Calves born on lush rest paddocks.

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Matt Quaedvlieg and his wife at Barrington Ranch holding an eShepherd neckband

Keremeos, BC, Canada

Matt Quaedvlieg

Barrington Ranch Ltd · Crater Mountain

Operation
150 head of cattle on 7,500 ha
Head
150
Scale
10,000+ ha

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

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

Taranaki, NZ

George Hardwick-Smith

Operation
200 R1 Bulls · 10 mobs · 120 cells per mob
Head
200
Scale
Under 1,000 ha

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

OutcomeWeekly mob shifts that used to take a day take 40 minutes — drawn on a laptop, executed remotely.

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