Yield of three soybean cultivars and of three maturation dates, sowed on typical, late and autumn sowing dates was evaluated. Three individual and independent experiments, one for each sowing date, were carried out in a randomized block factorial design 3 x 3 with three replications (3 cultivars: IAC-12, IAC-17 and IAC-19; three planting densities: 10, 20, and 30 plants.m1). The yield components used for evaluation were: total number of pods and total number of grains, determined for 10 randomly choosen plants per plot. The weight 1,000 grains and grain yield were determined for each plot. Yield components showed differences among themselves, with a compensating effect among cultivars, densities, and sowing dates, providing a uniform grain yield. Cultivar IAC-19 showed the best grain yield performance in the autumn sowing date, independently of plant densities. Sowing date mostly affects grain yield.
soybean; cultivar; sowing date; density; yield