Imperial Whitetail
Pure Attraction for Early and Late Hunting Seasons f you’re looking for a fall annual designed to attract deer quickly, grow rapidly and provide sustained food and attraction during the coldest months, Pure Attraction delivers.
Annuals can be great tools for delivering abundant forage at specific times of year. Pure Attraction is a perfect example of how great tools become exceptional performers when they are carefully selected and combined in ratios that take advantage of the best attributes of each. Pure Attraction is scientifically designed to deliver its sustained, season-long attraction in a one-two punch of rapid growth and attraction in the early season and prolific forage availability in the late season. Whitetail Oats and Winter Peas for Early Season: The backbone of Pure Attraction’s early-season attractiveness and nutrition is Whitetail Oats. These oats are winter-hardy and drought-resistant, and their high sugar content makes them exceptionally attractive and palatable to deer. These early-season plants establish and grow
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quickly. And after exhaustive side-by-side testing, the conclusion is clear: Whitetail Oats outperform all other forage-oat products the Whitetail Institute has tested. Performance in the early stages of Pure Attraction is further enhanced by small amounts of highly attractive winter peas. Meanwhile, the WINA brassicas in Pure Attraction establish and provide even more tonnage during the early season. This combination results in fast germination, rapid growth and sustained attraction and tonnage in both the fall and winter. WINA-Brand Forage Brassicas for Late Season: As the weather turns colder later in fall, frosts cause an enzyme in the brassicas in Pure Attraction to turn starches in the plants to sugars, making them even sweeter and more irresistible to deer. These brassicas stand taller, even in snow, and continue to provide deer with highly attractive and nutritious forage during the coldest months. The availability of highly nutritious forages during winter can be a huge benefit to deer by helping them maintain body weight and health. This helps them recover from winter more quickly in early spring. And remember, the sooner a buck can recover his winter health losses, the earlier in the antlergrowing season he can direct more nutrients to building antlers. Pure Attraction is designed for fall planting during the same dates as the fall-planting times for Imperial Whitetail perennials, and it’s even easier to plant because it does not require the sort of deeper ground tillage required for planting some perennial blends. Optimum soil pH for Pure Attraction is 6.5 to 7.5, and if lime must be added to raise soil pH, it need be tilled only into the first few inches of soil. Also, smoothing the seedbed before planting Pure Attraction is not as critical as it is with many perennial blends. Just leave the surface of the soil loose, and when you broadcast Pure Attraction, drag over the seed lightly to seat it into the soil. For information about Pure Attraction, go to whitetailinstitute.com, or call the Whitetail Institute consultants at (800) 688-3030. ^
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