The current soil test method used to evaluate soil phosphorus and potassium available to the plants in soils from Rio Grande do Sul e Santa Catarina state is the Mehlich-1 solution. The soil test methods studies for these nutrients were conducted based on the conventional soil tillage. The aim of this work was to compare the soil phosphorus and potassium amounts extracted by the Mehlich-1 solution and the nutrients amounts extracted by the Mehlich-3 solution, and resin membrane in soils from the Rio Grande do Sul state, under no tillage soil system and nutrients crop response. The phosphorus amounts extracted by the resin method and by the Mehlich-3 solution were higher than that those extracted by the Mehlich-1 solution in both of them sampling depth. The correlation coefficients among the phosphorus amounts extracted by the methods were high association degree. The potassium amounts extracted by the methods were similar, and the correlation coefficients among the potassium amounts extracted by the methods were high association degree in all soil sampling depth. The soil testing methods that have studied in this work are efficient for soil phosphorus and potassium extraction in soils under no tillage; however, the lowest soil phosphorus amounts extracted by the Mehlich-1 solution, increase the laboratory errors.
no tillage systems; soil test methods; phosphate fertilizer; potassium fertilizer
