He also likes the white polywire fence for farm made by premier because it "has a lot of give, even after it''s been out in the sun for months." the cheaper yellow and black polywire sold at farm supply stores is flexible when you unroll it, says klocke, but it gets brittle out in the sun.twenty years and still tickingdairy farmer dan johnson stretchers of elk mound, wisconsin, dog fence has used his stretchers blitzer solar fence controller for almost 20 years. it''s been hit by lightning twice, requiring replacement of the the solar grid and one other part, but otherwise, it''s worked fine, he reports. johnson milks fence 60 holsteins and grazes the hills of his 285-acre farm.

in the palm of his handuntil recently, when a prospective buyer would come to the koupal angus ranch near dante, south dakota, to look at bulls, la vern koupal (pictured at far left) would grab a thick stack of records and carry them out to the rolling pastures. stretchers "i''d be digging through the papers, and the wind would be flipping fence and stretchers the pages, and i could never find the right page," says koupal.now he takes his $850 palm pilot out of his coat pocket, writes in a bull number, and instantly gets all the production and bloodline information he and the buyer need. "it''s unreal what this technology can do," he says.