The choice of a soil tillage system, aiming the best use and integration between soil and crop, is very difficult. The objective of the present work was to evaluate vertical loads (0; 98; 196 and 294 N) on the press wheels of the seeders working at sowing depths (0.03; 0.05 and 0.07 m) for the soybean. The work was carried out at Rural Engineering Department of UNESP - São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Brazil, in the Machines and Mechanization Laboratory’s area. The experiment design was 4x3 factorial in randomized blocks with three replications, totalling 12 treatments and 36 observations. The emergence, initial and final population of cultivation, index of surving plants, immobilized area in sowing and the yield grain were analyzed. The results showed that, except for mobilized area concerning the working depth of sowing shaft, all the other variables were not influenced by the treatments.
stand of plants; mobilized area; grain yield
