Always check your states regulations before baiting.
Top Baits
Mineral salt licks- OMRI certified
Apples or other fruits like watermelon! trust me on this, I could not get the deer out of our garden they ate it all gone!- not sprayed with chemical pesticides and not with the wax coating
Corn – NON GMO or Organic
Sugar Beets- Try growing your own ORGANIC sugar beets! https://www.rareseeds.com/sugar-beet/
Nuts- Pine nuts, chesnuts, acorns – Organic
Growing feed- only legal in certain states!
I see too often a hunter pouring a bag of attractant into a feed bin or spreading corn and apples on the ground and a sweet syrup. I literally cringe because one of the reason why I enjoy hunting so much is that I am eating an animal that is completely grass fed without any chemicals and genetically modified feed!
With how often people bait, Makes me wonder if the game I killed has been eating all this non natural bait too. The animals people ate throughout evolution roamed free and ate grass. I want to continue to eat “real” food.
Studies show The way animals are fed can have a major effect on the nutrient composition of the meat. Look below on “why?”.
DO buy Organic/NonGMO, OMRI, pesticide free, artificial free ingredients!
DONT buy corn, sugar beets, alfalfa unless labeled NON GMO or Organic
WHY?
By Jonathan R. Latham, PhD
https://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions.html
http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/81/8106.pdf
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/grass-fed-vs-grain-fed-beef
WHERE TO BUY?
https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/search?query=corn
Local feed store
Grow your own!
http://www.seedsofchange.com/seeds https://www.rareseeds.com/
Find a local neighbor with apples and other produce
Alfalfa- Local or find online a non GMO variety