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Organized and incorporated under the corporation laws of South Carolina in 1950, the Association is a private, not for profit, eleemosynary corporation.   The Association is self-supporting and receives no state appropriated funds.   The Association operates under a memorandum of agreement with South Carolina   Agriculture and Forestry Research System, Clemson University.  Goals include:

1.  Promote the use of foundation, registered and certified classes of quality seed.

2.  Promote the use of public varieties (i.e. varieties developed by state experiment stations and/or USDA        plant breeders.

3.  Encourage the production, conditioning,  distribution and use of public varieties.

Management of the Association is vested in a nine member Board of Directors elected by the active membership of the Association.  The board members are elected for three year terms. 

The Association contracts with branch experiment stations, individual growers and private companies for the production and, in some cases, processing and distribution of seed stock.  Prices of seed are designed to cover cost of production and cost of maintaining the association.