The production, development, marketing, and promotion of sunflowers, safflowers, canola, and flax in South Dakota is important to the general welfare of the people of South Dakota. It is in the public interest that better methods of production, processing, and marketing of sunflowers, safflowers, canola, and flax be developed and that advertising and promoting of sunflowers, safflowers, canola, and flax grown in South Dakota be fostered, encouraged, developed, and improved so the sunflower, safflower, canola, and flax industries within the state, the people directly or indirectly employed by these industries and the people of South Dakota should be benefited thereby, the accomplishment of which requires and demands the establishment of a South Dakota Oilseeds Council for the purposes and with the objectives of contributing to the stabilization and improvement of the agricultural economy of this state.
SDCL 38-27-3