Producer Profile: Tom Perkins, Con-O-Creek Farm, PA
“I do what is best for the grass and that is good for the sheep too.” says Tom Perkins, who grazes his sheep 365 days a year on his farm in Fombell Pa. ‘Big Tom,’ as he is known, runs his 150 registered Katahdin ewes on 70 acres of owned land and eight acres of leased ground. On Big Tom’s Con-O-Creek Farm, he has created a unique system utilizing both fields and barn for optimal production. Big Tom grew up on his family’s farm milking cows until the mid ‘80’s when the farm was transitioned to a beef cattle operation.…