This study aimed to evaluate leaching of the herbicides sulfentrazone and amicarbazone, with and without mineral oil in a sugar cane plantation area on a Red Latosol, using soil columns. For leaching assessment, after the accumulated rainfall of 35, 67 and 106 mm, PVC tubes of 10 cm in diameter, sliced lengthwise, were buried at the depth of 35 cm, managing to maintain the original structure of the soil. The tubes were removed, split into halves and placed in a greenhouse, where seeds of the test plant sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and morning-glory (Ipomoea nil) were sown along the profile of each half of the tubes. The experimental design was randomized blocks with the treatments in split-plots with four replications. The plots consisted of two herbicides, with or without adjuvant, and a control without herbicide. The subplots were the depths (0.0-2.5; 2.5-5.0; 5.0-10, 10-15, 15-20, 20-25; 25-30; 30-35 cm). At 20 days after sowing, dry weight of the seedlings was determined. Sulfentrazone leached up to 10 cm deep, even with 106 mm of rainfall, without any differential effect of the oil. The effects were more pronounced for sorghum. Amicarbazone did not interfere in the dry weight of sorghum. For morning-glory, under a rainfall of 35 mm, the herbicide reduced seedling development, regardless of depth and without any oil effect; with 67 mm of rainfall, the herbicide leached through soil with the mineral oil, maintaining it in the most superficial layer. With 106 mm, the herbicide was totally leached and no oil effect was confirmed.
percolation; herbicides; sorption; depths
