N.C. Gen. Stat. § 106-269

There is hereby created a Board of Crop Seed Improvement. It shall be the duty and function of this Board, in cooperation with the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University, the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and the Seed Testing Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to foster and promote the development and distribution of pure strains of crop seeds among the farmers of North Carolina.