This work had the objective of studying the infiltration of water in cultivated soil under different tillage systems and crop rotation and the adaptation of Horton and Kostiakov-Lewis equations for estimating the water infiltration rate using a portable sprinkler infiltrometer. Field tests were accomplished in four systems of crop rotation, cultivated in plots of no tillage and conventional tillage systems. The quality of adjustment of models was evaluated through non-linear regressions among estimated values and mean values observed for each treatment. It may be concluded that the no tillage system provided values of water infiltration rate in the soil higher than the conventional tillage system; among the studied treatments, the succession soybean-oat provided higher value of the final infiltration rate. The quality of the adjustment of models was satisfactory and the equation of Horton proved to be more adequate for estimating the rate of infiltration.
infiltration rate; sprinkler infiltrometer; soil tillage
