Pig slurry applied to soil at different rates may affect soil properties and the mobility of chemical compounds within the soil. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of rates of pig slurry application in agricultural areas on soil physical and chemical properties and on the mobility of glyphosate through the soil profile. The study was carried out in the 12th year of an experiment with pig slurry applied at rates of 0 (control), 50, 100 and […]

The herbicide imazaquin has an acid and a basic ionizable functional group, and its behavior in soil depends on the pH and organic carbon (OC) and oxide contents, mainly in soils with variable charges. The free energy (DG) of 14C-imazaquin molecule sorption was evaluated in surface and subsurface samples of an Anionic “Rhodic” Acrudox (RA), an Anionic “Xanthic” Acrudox (XA), and a Rhodic Kandiudalf (RK), at four different pH levels. The Freundlich equation was fitted to the resulting data to […]

Pesticide kinetics and sorption allow to predict the equilibrium time of the reaction and to speculate over the reaction mechanisms involved.Therefore, their study is fundamental to understand the environmental fate of pesticides.The aim of this research was to evaluate the sorption and kinetics of the fungicide chlorothalonil in five distinct soils with different organic matter contents of the state of São Paulo (Brazil): Neossolo Quartzarênico órtico (RQo), Latossolo Vermelho distroférrico (LVdf-1 e LVdf-2), Latossolo Vermelho perférrico (LVj), and Gleissolo (G).The […]