A quality fence can add security and visual impact to your home, and there is one sleek wire fence design you may want to ...

Sometimes called “page wire” fencing, this system uses the same kind of wood and metal posts common to other fencing types. Corner/end posts generally are about 8 feet long, at least 8 inches ...

There are many fence options on the market. One option, a hog wire fence, is budget-friendly and practical, but there are some downsides to consider.

Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

The typical tensioned-wire fence exerts a minimum of 1,000 pounds of pull on an anchor post. An anchor post serving as a corner post must withstand that much pull in two directions.

But there was one major problem: “[W]hen a wire fence was placed between a 1,000-pound Texas longhorn and a patch of lush green pasture, it proved to be something of a pushover,” writes George ...

Life in America was reshaped by the use of the thorny fence known as “barbed wire.” This highly effective fencing material of early ranchers and farmers changed life “as dramatically as the ...

Today, an estimated 620,000 miles of fencing, most of it barbed wire, stretches across the rural West, and its toll on the region continues to mount.Animals that try to jump over or wiggle under ...