This curriculum guide, the second part of a core curriculum for a rural agriculture program, consists of materials for use in presenting the final two units in a nine-unit course for high school vocational agriculture students living in rural areas. Addressed in the first unit are the following aspects of agricultural mechanics: selecting and using electric motors, adjusting and maintaining spraying equipment, and maintaining and servicing tractors. The second of the two units, a discussion of agricultural business management, deals with understanding and using basic economic principles of production, managing credit in agriculture, planning an insurance program, using the Illinois Farm Record Book, understanding agricultural taxes, using microcomputers in agricultural business management, understanding basic agricultural law, and planning an agricultural production business. Each of these two units contains some or all of the following: suggestions to the teacher, a teacher's guide, a competency inventory, information sheets, student worksheets or assignment sheets and a key, demonstrations, job sheets, transparencies, a discussion guide for the transparencies, and sample test questions along with a teacher's key. (MN)