Since the late 1920s, cotton producers in the Far West and Mid-South areas of the U.S. Cotton Belt have employed this system to sell their crops. A year later, PCCA introduced pool marketing for its members in South Texas. The success of PCCA's pool alternative is measured by its phenomenal growth in volume of cotton marketed and its rise in popularity among PCCA members. The only difference is PCCA sets the final advance to the grower. This popular marketing alternative offered to our members allows them to direct their personal resources to cotton production.
Normal discipline includes making sales before, during and after harvest.
Participation Members wishing to participate in the pool can do so by signing a marketing pool agreement, and only whole farm serial numbers are accepted. The pool marketing agreement is perpetual, but it gives our members an opportunity to sign farms in and sign farms out during one month each year. The Concept PCCA's sales staff is solely responsible for the marketing of the pool. The staff uses futures and options for hedging purposes to manage marketing risk. Cotton is sold routinely to U.S. textile mills, foreign textile mills and the cotton merchant trade, and sales are spread throughout the year to achieve a good average price.