La stalla moderna is an Italian booklet on the construction of dairy farms, published by the Ramo Editoriale degli Agricoltori in 1937. It promotes the modernization of farm buildings through ventilation systems, steel cubicles, mechanized drinking troughs, etc. It resonates with the goals related to the "Battaglia Zootecnica" (zootechnical battle) as promoted by the Fascist regime.

Costruzioni rurali is a prominent handbook on the construction of farm buildings, published in 1956 by Giuseppe Stefanelli (1905–2009), professor of agricultural mechanics (meccanica agraria) in Pisa, Bologna and Florence.