That was all very well for Cole Porter, but farming needs fences. It’s when deciding what kind of fence and how much to spend on building it that the questions really start to mount up. It’s ...

Perhaps the most common and simplest fencing tool is the chain wire strainer, invented by New Zealand engineer EE Hayes more than 100 years ago. The Hayes brand is still sold, as are other designs.

Villagers living in Thali and Javalagiri forests in Hosur forest division heaved a sigh of relief after the forest department erected a 2-km-long steel wire fence to prevent wild elephants from ...

STOCKTON — The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a contract that will upgrade the fencing around the county’s escape-prone minimum-security facility called the Honor Farm.

Over the years, our annual Farm Inventions Competition has yielded a bumper crop of farm-fettled fencing tools and nifty hedge-taming equipment. We revisit a few of the highlights. Rhodri Thomas has ...

Someone reportedly broke into a mink farm in Pennsylvania, setting free thousands of its furry inhabitants. Before 6.50am on Sunday, an unidentified suspect — or suspects — cut holes into the fences ...