Tall Tine Tubers is different from any other turnip product on the market in one important way: its backbone turnip variety, Tall Tine Turnip, is the only turnip variety ever scientifically developed specifically for deer. Tall Tine Turnip is a proprietary turnip variety that you’ll only find in Whitetail Institute products.
The research and development that ultimately led to Tall Tine Turnips began with the Whitetail Institute’s agronomists, who painstakingly selected and tested numerous existing turnip varieties to determine the ones that best displayed specific characteristics the Whitetail Institute considered most important for any turnip product that would be planted in food plots for deer. Examples include attractiveness to deer, rapid establishment and growth, high tonnage, tuber size, and sustained availability.
The No. 1 Selection Criteria: Preference by Deer
It took the Whitetail Institute six years to develop Tall Tine Tubers — six years of constantly evaluating candidate components, alone and in different ratios, in a truly reliable way: by planting according to directions, observing the stand for establishment, growth and production under actual climactic conditions, and letting wild, free-ranging deer show which they preferred the most.
Different formulations were initially tested by the Whitetail Institute until the list of candidate blends was narrowed to only the very best. The best candidates then went on for real-world testing on wild, free-ranging deer at the Whitetail Institute and at its Certified Research Centers across North America. Whenever Whitetail Institute was satisfied during a phase of development that its testing had proven deer preference for a particular plant, that plant was isolated and protected from further browsing in order to allow it to produce seed. That seed was then put back into testing the following year, and the process of developing the most attractive turnip variety continued. Think about it — if you’re developing products intended to establish quickly, grow well, attract and hold deer, and last in a wide variety of climates, what could be a more reliable test than actually planting them and observing what happens under real-world conditions?
It’s expensive and time consuming to do it that way, but that’s how the Whitetail Institute does it, and for one simple reason: It provides as reliable proof as you can get. And that’s the real beauty of Tall Tine Tubers. As is the case with all Whitetail Institute products, the guesswork has been taken out. You have the luxury of relying on the Whitetail Institute name and what wild deer have shown under real-world conditions.
Designed for planting in the late summer/early fall, Tall Tine Tubers provides two food sources for deer during the fall and winter. The first is its foliage, which grows very quickly, produces abundant tonnage, and becomes even sweeter with the frosts of fall. The second is the sweet tubers it produces, which can grow large underground and are attacked as deer dig them up when the cold weather sets in.
Tall Tine Tubers is available in 1/2-acre and 2-acre bags. For more information, visit whitetailinstitute.com, or call the Whitetail Institute’s in-house consultants at (800) 688-3030. The call and the service are free.
