{"id":59627,"date":"2026-08-28T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jersey-shepherds-say-gps-technology-making-lives-much-easier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:15:08","slug":"jersey-shepherds-say-gps-technology-making-lives-much-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/jersey-shepherds-say-gps-technology-making-lives-much-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey shepherds say GPS technology making lives &#8216;much easier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The collars use GPS technology to keep livestock within an invisible boundary drawn using a smartphone app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the animals reach the edge of the boundary the collar delivers an audio warning and then delivers mild electric shocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The technology was created in Norway and has been tested extensively across the UK. The project uses about 150 collars as part of its management of 600 sheep in Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Josh said: &#8220;We got our first 70 collars about three years ago now, since then we&#8217;ve been getting more and more because it makes our job so much easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It means we can graze more challenging areas, so steep cliffs, areas with heavy bracken or gorse&#8230; it means we can also track the sheep as well, so every day when we go looking and counting the sheep we&#8217;ve got them already on the app and we can find them very easily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2mnjez5gvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collars use GPS technology to keep livestock within an invisible boundary drawn using a smartphone app. If the animals reach the edge of the boundary the collar delivers an audio warning and then delivers mild electric shocks. The technology was created in Norway and has been tested extensively across the UK. The project uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4919,3720,11167,794,182,10331,461],"class_list":["post-59627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-easier","tag-gps","tag-jersey","tag-lives","tag-making","tag-shepherds","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59629,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions\/59629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}