is less pneumonia. When cows get pneumonia
under conventional farming, they get a shot. With
organic farming – “we can’t do that.”
“Organic farming forces you to be a better
farmer,” Perkins said.
Perkins comes from a family of very good
farmers. His father, Harry, was one of the three
finalists in 1989 for soil conservation. “My father
should get credit for what I do. Actually he
got a football scholarship to Virginia Tech. My
grandfather said he’d sell the farm if my dad
took the scholarship. So Dad left the scholarship
behind and came home to farm,” Perkins said.
Spring 2015 calves at Perk Farm
Perk Farm is blessed with really good pasture
ground, according to Rem. “The main thing people
need to understand about organics is to do their best to
work with Mother Nature. Tweaking what she does and
working with her makes the cows do what they were
meant to do, eat grass. Her diet for them is long stem
forages, grass, hay and those kinds of things. We do
provide ext