The intensive agricultural traffic on soils under coffee can cause excessive compaction, mainly when vehicles pass under inadequate soil moisture conditions, promoting yield decreases. Our objectives were: a) to assess the degradation of soil structure in the tractor track (TT) and the harvester track (HT), based on soil physical properties and load bearing capacity as related to the soil matric potential in three layers, b) to calculate the critical matric potential to prevent additional soil compaction by a Massey Ferguson […]