Black Oats, otherwise known as Saia Oats, is the world’s most widely used winter green manure – with good reason. This temperate cereal offers farmers a number of benefits: Black Oats produce a high level of organic matter. They form a dense cover, and protect the soil from wind and rainfall erosion. Due to the way in which Oats tiller, they have the ability to effectively suppress weeds. Creeping grasses and weeds are suppressed – due to allelopathy. Similarly, particularly