Lock and Load and Get Downwind All New from the Whitetail Institute TALL TINE TUBERS




By Whitetail Institute Staff


Say hello to the Whitetail Institute’s newest forage blend: Imperial Whitetail Tall Tine Tubers! The Whitetail Institute can’t keep Tall Tine Tubers a secret any longer. With its introduction, hunters and managers finally have a highly attractive, high-tonnage, cold-hardy, turnip product available that is specifically designed for deer. Tall Tine Tubers is purpose-built to provide two sources of food for whitetails, an extremely high-quality forage source as well as tubers, starting in fall and especially through the dead of winter.
 And like other Whitetail Institute forage products hunters and managers have come to rely on, Tall Tine Tubers is the first and only turnip food-plot product ever specifically developed for deer food plots. First and foremost, Tall Tine Tubers is attractive to deer as soon as it begins to grow and incredibly attractive through the late fall and winter. As is the case with all Whitetail Institute forage products, though, Tall Tine Tubers is more than just attractive — much, much more.

Let’s look more at the two sources of food Tall Tine Tubers is specifically designed to provide: forage and tubers. The forage aspect of Tall Tine Tubers is an abundant, highly attractive food source for deer throughout the winter in most parts of North America. It remains available and attractive to deer during the coldest months of the year, a time when few natural food sources for deer remain, and most planted forages are either exhausted or buried under the snow. The tuber aspect of Tall Tine Tubers is an additional food source that, like the forage aspect, is both abundant and highly attractive. The bottom line is that if you have been looking for a forage product that will provide maximum performance for deer during the dead of winter, Tall Tine Tubers is definitely what you’ve been looking for.

Even though Tall Tine Tubers is specifically designed to be a winter food source for deer, that doesn’t mean that winter is the only time it will draw and hold deer. Far from it.! Tall Tine Tubers is also easy to plant, establishes quickly, and starts performing at a high rate right out of the blocks, producing abundant tonnage in the early season. And when we say Tall Tine Tubers produces “tonnage,” we mean it. Tall Tine Tubers is specifically designed for heavy late-fall and winter usage by whitetail deer, and it’s so productive that it can produce literally tons of highly attractive food for deer during the fall and winter. By now, it’s no secret that when it comes to research, development and testing, no one goes to the effort that the Whitetail Institute does. That’s true of all Whitetail Institute forage products, and Tall Tine Tubers is certainly no exception. The Institute’s research and development staff, Certified Research Stations and free-range testers spent six years developing and testing Tall Tine Tubers to ensure that it meets the Institute’s quality and performance standards, which remain unmatched in the industry.

Initial research and development of Tall Tine Tubers began with the Institute’s scientists, who painstakingly selected and tested a multitude of different turnip varieties to  determine which were the most highly preferred by deer. Next, these specially selected turnip varieties were combined in many different ratios as separate test blends, and testing started all over again to determine which blend best satisfied the Institute’s overall research and development goal: to develop a high-tonnage turnip product that would establish quickly, grow rapidly, remain available as a forage and provide tubers as a food source for deer even during the dead of winter in most parts of North America and, of course, most of all be exceptionally attractive to deer.

Different formulations were initially tested at the Institute until the list of candidate blends was narrowed to only the very best. These then went on for further testing at the  Institute’s Certified Research Stations across the U.S. and Canada, after which only a few candidate blends remained.

And that’s when the testing really got tough. Only the best of the best were then chosen to go on to one of the most difficult stages of Whitetail Institute forage product development: real-world testing on wild, free-ranging whitetails all around in the U.S. and Canada Whitetail Institute products can be grown to ensure top performance as a whitetail deer forage.

The Whitetail Institute is so serious about only offering the finest forage products it can make, that even after going to the huge expense, time and effort to research, develop and test new product candidates all the way until the final stage, they won’t be released to the public unless they prove themselves top performers on free-ranging deer across North America.

It’s as simple as that. A new product candidate can’t just make it “to” the final stage of testing; it must make it all the way through the final stage, and it must do so with flying colors. If it doesn’t, it won’t be released. Period. For the Institute’s existing customers, though, that’s really no surprise because that’s the same strict process by which all potential new Whitetail Institute forage products are developed. And is all that effort worth it? Absolutely. Whitetail Institute customers all across the U.S. and most of Canada have good reason to expect nothing but the best, and that is what they will get with Tall Tine Tubers. For more information or to order Tall Tine Tubers, call the Whitetail Institute’s in-house consultants at (800) 688-3030.