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Climate change impacts all agricultural production in all territories. Its effects are already clearly visible on orchards. This chapter makes it possible to better understand the changes that farmers will be faced with and therefore to consider changes to their system as soon as possible in order to sustain their work. Indeed, current cultivation practices (conventional) are based on the multitude of tool passages in succession, without considering the negative effects, in the medium and long term, on the structure of the soil and on its topsoil. Thus, the excessive number of passages of agricultural tools results in increased energy consumption and a high hourly requirement per hectare. Indeed, this phenomenon of agricultural soil compaction is one of the main causes of its physical degradation. However, the rational use of agricultural land requires the introduction of new techniques of tillage as well as appropriate mechanization, which meets the requirements of crops, the improvement of production, and the preservation of the structured soil.