The objective of this study was to evaluate in the fifth year of experimentation, the effect of winter soil uses on residual straw on the soil, physical and chemical soil attributes and grain yield of common bean cultivated in succession. An experiment was carried out in the North Plateau of Santa Catarina State, Brazil, from May 2006 to April 2011. Five winter soil uses were investigated: 1) multicropping with black oat + ryegrass + common vetch without grazing (multicropping cover); 2) the same multicropping, with grazing and 100kg ha(-1) of nitrogen year(-1), applied during the growing period (pasture with N); 3) the same multicropping, with grazing and without nitrogen fertilization (pasture without N); 4) oil seed radish, without grazing (oil seed radish); and 5) natural vegetation, without grazing (fallow). In the fifth year of experimentation, multicropping cover treatment inputted greater straw on the soil, but it was not observed expressive differences in soil attributes among the five winter soil uses. Cover crops, annual pasture and winter fallow did not affect the grain yield of common bean cultivated in succession.
