Silk cotton: how to eliminate the invasive plant that haunts your pasture?

Livestock farmers, or silk cotton, is a weed that has been spreading across farms, becoming a problem for pastures. José Fernando, a producer from Serra do Ramalho in the state of Bahia, is seeking help to eliminate the invasive plant that is taking over his pastures. In this response on the program Giro do Boi, the zootechnician and master's degree holder in pasture and forage crops Edmar Peluso, from the consultancy Gerente de Pasto, explained that this invasive plant is difficult to combat and that foliar control and mowing are not efficient. Edmar Peluso is direct: the silk cotton is an invasive plant "hard to kill." Foliar control, with the application of herbicides on the leaf, has very low efficiency, and control by mowing, followed by the application of glyphosate on the stump, also does not work well due to the thin stem of the plant. The most effective method, according to the specialist, is stem control. In the face of a high infestation, the question the livestock ...