This agricultural occupations handbook was developed from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and the U.S. Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Labor publication, Vocational Education and Occupations. It includes the U.S. Office of Education coding for the instructional area of agriculture and the cluster coding for the clusters of occupations within agriculture. It also includes the DOT number for each agricultural occupation in each cluster and a description of that occupation. Instructional areas include agricultural production, agricultural supplies/services, agricultural mechanics, agricultural products (processing, inspection and marketing), ornamental horticulture (production, processing, marketing, and services), agricultural resources (conservation, utilization, and services), forestry (production, processing, management, marketing, and services), and agriculture, other (i.e., agricultural areas not listed or classifiable in one of the preceding areas). (A related document is Agricultural Careers: A Curriculum Guide, CE 017 473.) (JH)