Imperial Whitetail No-Plow: Exceptional Attraction, Versatility and Simplicity

Imperial Whitetail No-Plow is the one of

the most successful food plot products the

Whitetail Institute has ever offered. In fact, No-Plow is the second longest-running food plot product in the Whitetail

Institute’s forage product lineup, right behind Imperial Whitetail Clover. It owes its huge popularity to three things: its superior attractiveness to deer, its tremendous versatility, and the improvements the Whitetail Institute continues to make to it.

Superior Attractiveness. As is the case with all Whitetail Institute forage products, you can be sure that No-Plow is exceptionally attractive to deer, and the reason is very simple: attractiveness to deer is the overriding forage-development goal of the Whitetail Institute. Other research goals include high protein, rapid stand establishment, early seedling vigor, and tolerance of cold, heat and drought. Even so, no matter how much protein a forage has, how quickly it establishes and grows and how well it can tolerate tough planting conditions, it will never — never — make it to Whitetail Institute product status unless it is, first of all, highly attractive to deer.

No-Plow is a blend of multiple, diverse forages. Each is highly attractive in its own right, and when they’re combined in the exact ratios in which you’ll find them in No-Plow, they’re even more attractive. One reason is the different, yet complementary forage components in the product.

Forage grasses, annual clovers and brassica have always been the key component groups in No-Plow, and the reason is simple: These components’ performance have continuously proven to be outstanding, and they continue to be a reason why No-Plow maintains its dominant place in the market. Most recently, the Whitetail Institute’s new WINA 412 radish was added to No-Plow to push the early tonnage, late-season attraction and winter availability it features even higher. The radish’s main functions are to add additional attraction and variety during the early season, serve as a nurse crop as the other forages develop, and provide an additional late-season food source. The radishes also provide a secondary benefit to soil quality: their thick roots leave spaces in the soil, which can be of great benefit in heavy soils that are compacted. Also, any radish tubers that are left after winter add organic matter to the soil as they break down at the end of the planting’s life span.

No-Plow establishes and grows quickly, often appearing above ground just a few days after planting, and it starts drawing deer right away. Usually, deer tend to concentrate on the forage grasses first and then the clovers. Once the first frosts of fall arrive, the brassicas in No-Plow become even sweeter and continue to attract and hold deer into the coldest months of the year, and the radishes provide additional forage in both the early and late season. After winter, the annual clovers continue to provide much-needed nutrition for deer as they recover their winter health losses and bucks begin to regrow antlers.

Versatility

As its name implies, No-Plow can be planted either with minimal seedbed preparation or in a fully prepared seedbed. As such, it’s an ideal option for turning skidder roads, log landings, pond dams and other non-tillable areas into superb food plots. And as well as NoPlow can perform with minimal seedbed preparation, it can perform even better in seedbeds that have been fully prepared with tillage equipment. You’ll find instructions for both ways of planting No-Plow on the back of the bags and at whitetailinstitute.com.

No-Plow needs a minimum of three to four hours of broken, filtered or indirect sunlight a day. No-Plow is available in 9-lb. bags that plant 1/2 acre and 25-lb. bags that plant 1.5 acres. For more information on No-Plow, go to whitetailinstitute.com, or call the Whitetail Institute at (800) 688-3030. ^