In a field experiment on loess soil, the influence of four ways of pre-sowing cultivation and of differentiation of soil compaction by tractor passages on some physical features of soil was estimated. As a result of pre-sowing spring ploughing the soil in these variants showed the lowest density and highest total porosity compared to the soil cultivated with rototiiler and cultivator. The increase in soil density and the decrease in total porosity was caused by soil compaction as a result of the tractor passages. The capacity of macropores decreased while the capacity of micropores increased considerably.