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Winter-Greens Get Tastier with Winter
Weather
Many hunters agree Winter-Greens is the most
effective late season food plot product you
can plant. Brassicas by nature sweeten with
a hard frost. To be precise, the first hard
frost triggers plant maturity which results
in a sweeter taste. It’s like a banana. When
it’s green, a banana is not very tasty. Once
mature or ripe, a yellow banana is
delicious. The brassicas in Winter-Greens
are palatable to deer right away and get
tastier after a hard frost. While other food
plots become less appealing or are eaten
down, Winter-Greens continues to improve.
Don’t think the deer don’t know it!
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Winter-Greens works well because they stand
tall and stay green, even in the heavy snow.
They won’t get flattened like so many other
plants. Also since Winter-Greens does so
well in the snow and cold and is readily
available, your bucks have an opportunity to
maintain their weight and overall health
better and this allows them to get a better
start on their antlers next spring. Of
course, this also applies to the health of
your does as well.
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Tony Atwood -
Minnesota
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Winter-Greens is
preferred 4 to 1 Over Other Brassica-Based Food
Plots Tested
The
Whitetail Institute knows food plots and brassicas.
Brassicas have been a late-season food source
component in various Whitetail Institute Food Plot
products since 1993. One of the biggest obstacles
the Institute researchers had to overcome with a
pure brassica blend was palatability. Researchers
tested hundreds of brassicas and brassica blends and
after years of testing discovered a specific blend
of brassicas that proved to be incredibly attractive
and produced tons of forage. In fact, in “cafeteria”
(side by side tests) performed using wild,
free-ranging whitetail deer across the United
States, Winter-Greens was preferred over other
brassica food plot products tested by at least four
to one. That’s right: 4-to-1. That’s a huge
difference!
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Winter-Greens Can Make Your Herd Healthier
Winter-Greens will attract deer to your property for
late-season hunting, but there is another huge
advantage to Winter-Greens. It gives your deer an
exceptionally nutritious, easy-to-eat food source
during the most difficult time of year for deer: Old
Man Winter. Let’s face it. We want big bucks. Bucks
get big when they get the necessary nutrients to
grow antlers during the antler-growing season. That
said, a buck can have the best nutritional food
sources available in the spring when he begins to
grow antlers but if he is in poor shape due to a
rigorous winter, his system is going to direct many
of those nutrients to his body instead of is rack in
the early spring. The point is this. All things
equal, a buck that is healthy going into the
antler-growing season can produce a better set of
antlers than a buck that is a victim of the
hardships of winter. Winter-Greens helps provide the
nutrition deer need to make it through winter more
healthy and strong so a buck’s body can concentrate
on antler development and doe’s body can concentrate
on producing healthy fawns the following spring.
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