With the objective of evaluating the effect of five soil tillage equipments in the development and productivity of soybean (Glycine max L. (Merril)), a research in a Haplustox soil was conducted, in the municipal district of Uberaba - MG, Brazil, using randomized blocks, in a split plot scheme, with five treatments (scared, rotary tiller, moldboard plow, disk harrow and disk plow) and four repetitions. The soil tillage systems didn't show differences in the medium number of days of the soybean emergency, final stand, height of the first bean and productivity of the crop. The treatments with disk plow, moldboard plow and disk harrow provided the biggest initial populations of the crop. The plants height was affected by the soil tillage systems, standing out prepares it with the moldboard plow and with the rotary tiller, with the biggest and smaller absolute values, respectively.
plant height; height of the first bean; emergency
