“…However, weeds are not the cause of degradation but rather the inadequate management of extractive cattle farming historically implemented in Brazilian pastures. When installed, weeds negatively interfere with the structure of the forage canopy and the grazing habit of animals (Marchi, Bellé, Foz, Ferri, & Martins, 2017;Bellé, Marchi, Martins, Sousa, & Pinheiro, 2018;Lourenço, Mota, Sanches, Marques, & Marchi, 2019;R. F. Marques et al, 2019;Araújo, Marques, Pinheiro, Souza, & Marchi, 2020), consequently causing economic losses throughout the livestock production chain, pressuring for the opening of new extensive pasture areas (Andrade, Bolfe, Victória, & Nogueira, 2017), in addition to contributing to increased greenhouse gas emissions because of the supply of food with low nutritional value to the animals (Lourenço et al, 2019;Marchi et al, 2019b;Meurer, Brito, Marchi, Pinheiro, & Martins, 2020).…”