Romania is slightly smaller than the state of Oregon. It is a country of significant agricultural potential. Since 1915 the land and its people had suffered through the ravages of two world wars and were then governed for 40 years by an oppressive regime. During these difficult years of an economy seemingly based on social equity, an entire generation of people became little more than peasant survivors. At the top is the open heifer barn with a roof overhanging a bunker that feeds from two sides.
Milking cows are in the extension to the right, which has pipeline milkers.
Feed storage is in the upper left section and milk processing and storage in the lower right. The concept of working to produce something for yourself with enough extra to sell at a profit was lost. Stealing from those who had more than you was viewed as one way to share what wealth there was. Above all, the family concept suffered most during these bleak years, leaving the country with untold thousands of orphaned children, many of them ill and malnourished. When the country's government suddenly changed in 1989, Romania had thousands of government-controlled collective farms.