This curriculum package is designed to assist teachers in preparing fourth-year vocational agricultural curricula to meet local community or regional needs. Provided in the introductory section are instructions for using the guide, suggestions for designing curricula that are sex fair and that are suitable for use with disadvantaged and disabled students, a planned course statement, advance planning suggestions, a curriculum validation statement, and a four-year course outline. Forming the bulk of the guide are 12 units dealing with the following instructional topics: securing a job; irrigation and home irrigation; production records; project initiation; agricultural agencies and cooperatives; small gasoline engines; farm business management; marketing; an ideal farm project; completion of an ideal farm project; computers; pesticides; agricultural building construction; leadership; and beef, sheep, and swine production. Each of these units contains some or all of the following: general guidelines to the instructor, objectives, a list of suggested teaching aids, suggested student activities, suggested references, introduction ideas, a unit table of contents, an instructional outline, sample records and forms, assorted checklists, supplementary instructional text, additional exercises and learning activities, and assorted survey and evaluation instruments. (MN)