Crop-pasture systems improve soil quality, but their intensification through the increase of the frequency of annual crops may reduce it. We evaluated the impacts of six no-till rice rotations systems on soil quality after five years in a field scale long term experiment established on a site with a 30 years old stabilized rice-pasture rotation. Rotations included:continuous rice (ContRc); rice-soybean (Rc-Sy); rice-soybean-rice-sorghum (Rc-Sy-Sg); rice-soybean-pasture (Rc-Sy-Past); and rice-pasture, with short (Rc-SPast) and long-term pastures (Rc-LPast).