Márcio William Roque

Consumo de água e produção de grãos do feijoeiro irrigado em sistemas plantio direto e convencional

The inappropriate use of water resources in agriculture, to get higher yields, has caused negative impacts on soil water storage, reducing the efficiency of irrigated productive systems. The aim of this research was to study water use through crop coefficients for sprinkler-irrigated beans at different development stages, in addition to the production of grains and their components, in no tillage and tillage crop systems. Irrigation management was monitored with tensiometers to maintain the soil water content level between 28% (at the moment of irrigation) and 31% (field capacity). The crop evapotranspiration level (ETc) was obtained from the soil water balance and the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) using the Penman-Monteith method. The results indicate that bean crop coefficients show lower values in the no tillage system than in the conventional tillage system, during flowering and pod formation stages. The bean plants in no tillage system are more efficient in relation to water use than the conventional tillage system, because in this system, the bean crop shows higher grain yield with lower water consumption.

Curvas de compactação de um Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo: com e sem reúso de amostras

The soil compaction curve is determined by the Proctor test, normal or modified, widely used in civil engineering, however, its use has agronomic limitations, since the configuration of the curved part of the reuse of a single sample, disregarding the original soil structure. In this context, the objective of the study was to evaluate the configuration of the compaction curve based on with and without reuse of samples of an Oxissol, considering different management systems. While comparing the procedure with and without reuse of the sample, it was found that regardless of managements and layers evaluated, curves of soil compaction obtained were different. Furthermore, the procedure to reuse samples increases the density of the soil due to fragmentation of the aggregates and reorganization of its particles. Thus, for agricultural purposes, the compaction curve is suitably characterized without reuse of samples, since with this test, the aggregates of the sample, are not fully fractionated, both aggregates from soil under native vegetation or anthropized areas.

Correlation of the least limiting water range with soil physical attributes, nutrient levels and soybean yield

and micronutrients analyzed, and also with the land slope, compared the correlation with the soybean yield data. Therefore, nutritional analysis of the grains complemented by physical analysis of the soil can be used to identify nutritional imbalances that are not otherwise observable and thus, the LLWR can be useful for planning corrective actions regarding soil and crop management, based on measurement of the Bdcritical.