We live in western New York and have 80 acres surrounding our
home. We purchased this property about 10 years ago at which time I tested the
soil where I planned to create food plots. After several tons of bagged,
pelletized lime and many aches and pains later, I finally got the pH at a level
I was comfortable with. Now came the challenge of what to plant! “So many
products” and “so many claims.” After about three years a friend of mine put me
on to Imperial Whitetail Clover which has worked extremely well as a year round
perennial, sustainable crop. I still had the challenge of what to plant in a
2-acre plot I had dedicated to plant an annual. I tried other Whitetail
Institute products which have worked well to build a sustained deer population,
but none has worked as well as Winter- Greens and Tall Tine Tubers. The
attached picture taken the end of January this past year, shows the
Winter-Greens food plot and the effort the deer make to dig for them even in
the harshest conditions. There were 27 deer in the food plot but they were too
spread out to get them all in one picture. I thought the photos would be
interesting because most pictures are usually of deer standing in lush, green
plots with no effort to eat.
