The objective of this work was to evaluate request energetic demand by a seeder offered commercially for no-tillage, submitted to four displacement speeds and three soil covering conditions in soybean culture implantation. The experiment was installed at the Cazarotto Small Farm, located in Iguatemi District, municipal district of Maringá - PR, Brazil, in Haplotox Soil. It was used split-plot design. The main treatments were three soil-covering conditions (spontaneous vegetation, black oat desiccated and black oat desiccated + rolled) and the secondary ones, the four forward speeds (4.7; 5.4; 6.5 e 7.2 km h-1). The studied variables were draw bar pull, power requirement, and wheel drive slip and consumption fuel. The draw bar pull was influenced by the forward speed and for the soil covering conditions. The wheel drive slip was not influenced by the treatments. The hourly fuel consumption was larger in the spontaneous vegetation covering condition.
draw bar pull; power requirement; fuel consumption
