This guide is designed to aid the development of vocational education programs in agriculture in local school districts. Major program objectives, conditions conducive to learning, program evaluation, suggestions for using the guide, curriculum models, and Wisconsin's philosophy and procedures in developing occupational experience programs in vocational agriculture are discussed in the introduction. Over sixty vocational agriculture instructional units are described including agribusiness accounting, animal nutrition, choosing a career, conservation, farm management, floriculture, landscaping, meat processing, pollution, supervised occupational experience programs and records, and tobacco production. Each unit description contains the following elements: performance objectives, concepts to develop, subject matter to teach, motivation, learning activities, and materials needed. A directory of publishers of vocational agriculture instructional materials is appended. (LRA)