ABSTRACT The soil management system affects physical attributes, and the forward sowing speed can increase or decrease its results. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate management systems before and after soil mobilisation and forward sowing speed on soil physical attributes. Thus, an experiment was conduct in a completely randomized block design with four replications and six soil management systems: no tillage (NT), medium harrowing (MH), subsoiling operation (S), subsoiling and medium harrowing operations (S+MH), cross-subsoiling and medium harrowing (S+MH), and ploughing and two medium harrowing (P+2MH), and four forward sowing speeds: 3.1, 5.1, 5.8, and 7.9 km h−1, applied in the subplots. Soil management affects soil penetration resistance (PR) values, pointing out the highest PR occurring in no-tillage beyond critical limits. Soil bulk density (sD) is affected by management and forward sowing speeds. The medium harrowing operation has higher sD and the ideal forward sowing speed range to mitigate this effect would be 5.0 to 7.0 km h−1. Moreover, it also presents a higher amount of macropores in the 0.20–0.30 m layer. Management system without soil mobilisation favours an increase in soil microporosity, and the use of subsoiler as tillage equipment should be carried out at slower speeds to favour the increased micropores.

ABSTRACT Soybean has significant economic importance in Brazil despite high production costs, making it necessary to increase the efficiency of mechanized harvest through the reduction of losses. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the total losses in the mechanized soybean harvest as a function of the combination of header types, operating speeds, and geometry of collection frames. The study was carried out in a commercial farm in a randomized block design arranged in a 2 × 3 × 3 factorial with 10 replications, totaling 180 replications. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and quality control. The square frame can be used instead of the rectangular frame for the determination of the total losses. The increasing operating speed increased total losses in the auger header. On the other hand, the lowest losses at the highest operating speed were observed in the belt header. The harvester with belt header was more efficient when compared to that with auger header at the highest operating speed.