Home Contact Us Careers search Menu ABOUT PCCA Your grower-owned cotton marketing cooperative Invested in your future. Grower-owners, cooperative gins, and customers from all around the nation and world depend on PCCA to deliver premium, sustainably sourced, responsibly grown, high-quality U.S. cotton. We strive every day to integrate innovative marketing strategies that add value to our growers and customers. Growers in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico own PCCA. In addition to our marketing services, we also provide innovative technology solutions to gins that increase efficiency and productivity. Our Warehouse Division provides a place for growers to store their cotton until it is ready to travel to its final destination, ensuring ownership and value far into the supply chain. Our diverse selection of services helps ensure added value through two of the many levels of the cotton supply chain. Our business follows the seven Cooperative Principles to ensure our operations are always, ethical, transparent, and carried out in the best interest of our membership. Open and Voluntary Membership Member Controlled Economic Participation and Ownership Autonomy and Independence Education, Training, and Information Cooperation Among Cooperatives Concern for Community PCCA is also a member of AMCOT, the National Cotton Council of America, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the International Cotton Association, the Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council, the Oklahoma Agricultural Cooperative Council, and the Kansas Cooperative Council. We are grounded in tradition. Our ability to keep a keen eye on the future did not just happen overnight. Years of service and progress have allowed us to hone our skills and become the established cooperative of tomorrow. Take a trip back in time as we share our history below. 1953 1953 We are founded by a group of farmers on the Texas High Plains searching for a way to achieve the best possible price for their cotton. 1957 1957 Our first marketing pool is launched, allowing farmers to focus on farming while PCCA focused on marketing their cotton. 1963 1963 Our services expanded to growers in the Texas Rolling Plains and Southwest Oklahoma. Warehouse facilities were built at Sweetwater, Texas and Altus, Oklahoma. PCCA would expand into Corpus Christi and Harlingen, Texas, four years later. 1971 1971 We join with three other U.S. cotton marketing co-ops to form AMCOT, a centralized “shopping center” for the world’s textile mills. During this same period, our co-op was a leader in the development of High Volume Instrument testing system now used by USDA to class all U.S. cotton. 1975 1975 TELCOT is developed by PCCA as the first electronic cotton marketing system. TELCOT was a central place where buyers and sellers could meet to trade cotton via computers connected to PCCA’s servers. 1989 1989 PCCA introduced the Electronic Title System (ETS) to work hand-in-hand with TELCOT. ETS eliminated the need for paper warehouse receipts, improved efficiency and reduced costs incurred by gins and cotton buyers, and expedited shipments to textile mill customers. GROUNDED IN TRADITION. INVESTED IN YOUR FUTURE.® Plains Cotton Cooperative Association P.O. Box 2827 Lubbock, TX 79408-2827 (806) 763-8011 (800) 333-8011 Toll Free (806) 762-7400 Fax Subscribe Sign up to receive Cotton Market Weekly and PCCA News directly in your inbox! Email I agree to be emailed Subscribe © 2021 Plains Cotton Cooperative Association. All rights reserved. twitter facebook linkedin youtube RSS instagram