This article aims to show the actual scenario of changes in the uses of rural land in Tandil, by means of investigations focused on the progress of productive instensification of the actions (sojización – pools of crops – feed lots) and their results: natural resources deterioration, displacement of productive systems, mainly livestock, predominance of a single crop and expulsion of rural actors. It has been developed, based on a theoretical framework which starts from the analysis of ER from a vision of rurality, built from the urban-rural links, to understand the changes and to interprete the future scenarios. The methodology was structured around the triangulation for which quantitative and qualitative data were revealed, through non-structured interviews and the processing and comparison of satellite images. The two used images correspond to the last Agriculture and Livestock Census (1988 and 2008). The universe of analysis is Tandil, located in the Southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.