Farm & Agricultural Fence — Supply across Canada

Farm fence is the bulk-pallet category. Where residential customers buy by the panel and commercial buyers buy by the linear-foot install, farms buy by the pallet — full rolls of wire, bundles of T-posts, palletized energizers and insulators. Fenced.ca operates a dedicated agricultural-supply desk with these substrates: woven wire (page wire) in standard heights 32″ to 60″ and stay-spacings for cattle, sheep, goat, deer, and predator-exclusion configurations; barbed wire in 2-point and 4-point patterns, galvanized Class 3; cattle panels (welded-mesh 16′ rigid panels for portable corrals and lot perimeters); high-tensile smooth wire (12.5-gauge Class 3, the modern energized-fence standard); horse-rail vinyl (white or black PVC top rails over wood post structure, the paddock standard); and T-posts in 5′ to 8′ length, painted or galvanized.

Class 3 zinc is the agricultural durability spec — 0.80 oz/ft² minimum, roughly 3× the coating weight of residential Class 1, suited to ground contact, livestock rub, and 20+ year service life in pasture conditions. Always confirm Class 3 with the mill-test certificate; agricultural sites with Class 1 wire are rusting out within 5 years.

Volume: typical orders run 5–40 pallets per ranch or section. Trucking is full-load or LTL depending on volume and routing; full-load shipments save 30–50% on freight vs LTL.

Wire types: Page wire (woven mesh, 1.2 m, sheep/goats/dogs). Barbed wire (cattle perimeter, 3–5 strand). High-tensile smooth wire (horses, electric-compatible). Field fence (livestock-grade page wire with graduated mesh — smaller at bottom for piglets/lambs, larger at top for cost).

Posts: Cedar posts last 20–25 years in pasture. PT pine 25–30 years. Steel T-posts 40+ years, painted or galvanized. Concrete corner posts for high-tension runs over 200 m. Standard spacing: 3–4 m for field fence, 5–6 m for cattle barbed.

Electric integration: Solar-powered chargers (0.5–1.0 joule output) for short runs, AC-powered (5–15 joule) for big herds. Insulators on every post, galvanized hot-wire at chest height for cattle (1.0 m) or top of withers for horses (1.4 m).

Pricing & lead time: Farm fence installed pricing: 3-strand barbed wire at $3–6 LF, page wire 1.2 m field fence at $6–10 LF, 5-strand high-tensile electric at $5–9 LF, board fence horse pasture at $25–45 LF. Volume discounts at 500 m+ runs. Same-week delivery to most Canadian agricultural zones from dispatch network.