Despite the available knowledge on erosion of cultivated lands, there are situations of soil use and management that need more detailed studies. Based on that, this research work was accomplished with the objective of evaluating soil erosion by rainfall from an area of native pasture cropped with corn (Zea mays L.), under reduced-tillage and no-tillage, and mineral (chemical fertilizer containing N and P) and organic (poultry litter) fertilization. The study was developed in the field, at the Agriculture Experimental Station […]

Long-term experiments are essential for research about organic matter dynamics of soils. This paper reports results of an experiment installed in September 1985 on a Paleudult soil degraded under inadequate management for 16 years. The experiment was conducted at the Experimental Station of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in Eldorado do Sul county. Three soil tillage methods (conventional tillage-CT, reduced tillage-RT and no-tillage-NT), three crop systems (oat/corn-O/C, vetch/corn-V/C and oat + vetch/corn + cowpea-O + V/C […]

In order to evaluate the viability of corn planting in a soil under reduced tillage, a field trial was conducted in Passo Fundo (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), in December, 1988. In the control plots, soil tillage consisted of chisel plowing and disking. In the other five treatments, tillage was done through a conjugated operation (chisel plow with a clod break roller). In the control and in one of the other treatments, the configuration of each line of the planter-fertilizer […]