Winter-Greens:

The Wait is Over!

By Jon Cooner

According to Boone and Crockett Club records, hunters today are around five times more likely to harvest a record-book deer today than they were before The Whitetail Institute started the food-plot and deer-management revolutions in 1988.  One reason has been the identification and, in the case of The Whitetail Institute, the actual engineering and development of forages specifically for deer. 

Over the years, The Whitetail Institute has continued to exhaustively research, develop and test new plant varieties under real-world conditions to meet specific needs identified by its Field Testers.  One such need has been for a late-season forage that would surpass the performance of traditional brassica products – one that would not only survive cold temperatures and well-drained soils, but also be highly attractive, and for a longer period during the fall and winter.  After years of development and real-world testing, The Whitetail Institute now offers a new and completely unique brassica blend, Imperial Winter-Greens, as the answer.  

When it comes to brassicas, no one has more experience than The Whitetail Institute, who first started marketing brassicas in a food-plot blend for whitetails in 1993.  As it does with all its products, The Whitetail Institute tested Winter-Greens extensively before releasing it to the public.  Tests were performed by independent researchers, at our certified research stations and at our company research areas on free-ranging whitetails, and the results were impressive to say the least - they showed that deer prefer Winter-Greens an incredible FOUR TO ONE over other brassica blends. 

Ken Eastman of Wildlife Habitat Consultants in East Hardwick, Vermont, tested Winter-Greens during its development and was highly impressed.  “We planted Winter-Greens last year on June 20th.  The deer first started eating the Winter-Greens on August 5th, and they continued to use it heavily without stopping all winter long.”  

Ken’s findings are mirrored by a well-known New York researcher, Neil Doughtery of NorthCountry Whitetails.  “We tested the brassicas in Winter-Greens and found that they were much more attractive than any brassica varieties or brassica blends we had ever tested.”

Gordon Barksdale of Decatur, Alabama tested Winter-Greens in multiple plots on his property in Tennessee.  “The results were spectacular, and I mean spectacular.  Deer started coming to the Winter-Greens in the fall, and it regenerated, and the deer just kept coming back, and they stayed on it hard all the way until spring.”

Jody Holdbrooks, The Whitetail Institute’s resident wildlife biologist, observed similarly impressive results.  “Here in Alabama the winters are comparatively mild.  Even so, the free-ranging deer on our Alabama leases absolutely tore Winter-Greens to pieces, even before our first frost.” 

In short, the verdict is in.  Researchers in many different geographical areas have observed time and time again that Winter-Greens is hands-down the most attractive brassica blend available.  If you have been waiting for a forage blend that would survive well-drained soils and offer unparalleled attraction even during the coldest winter months, your wait is over.  Imperial Winter-Greens is what you’ve been looking for.