Home Contact Us Careers Who We Are Marketing Sustainability Member Services Warehousing News Log In POOL MARKETING Add Value by Capturing Optimal Marketing Opportunities Throughout The Marketing Cycle Features & Benefits HOW IT WORKS Our seasonal pool marketing agreement is a contract for acreage, not for a specific number of bales. The grower-owner has the option to contract every bale or every-other-bale of the contracted farm’s production. The agreement remains in effect from year to year unless the grower-owner cancels it during the one-month Sign In /Sign Out Period each year. For more information, please contact your gin or PCCA’s Cotton Services Department. THE CONCEPT PCCA’s grower-owners have an active voice in the sales strategies for seasonal pools. PCCA’s Marketing Pool Committee guides our Sales team about the production and its risk appetite each year. PCCA monitors farm program benefits, futures markets, other hedging mechanisms, and all cost factors daily to optimize total returns to grower-owners. All farm program benefits related to marketing are processed by PCCA and distributed back to the grower-owners in the payments for their cotton. Unlike some other pools, PCCA pays full USDA loan premiums and discounts on all bales. When conditions warrant, PCCA pays market adjustments to reflect enhanced returns created by specific types of cotton. PCCA has seasonal pools for West Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas and South Texas. Each pool has its own Marketing Pool Committee comprised of growers elected by their peers. PAYMENTS PCCA’s Board of Directors sets an initial advance payment rate before harvest. Market conditions and sales pace are the primary drivers of the initial amount. Cotton that is eligible for the USDA’s Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) receives the loan value as a minimum. Cotton not eligible for the loan gets a payment based on market values and will be enhanced if its value increases. Customary warehouse charges are deducted from the initial price. PCCA distributes progress payments resulting from new sales. After PCCA’s year-end on June 30 each year, a dividend is declared and allocated to members of the pool. COSTS Pool members receive the full value achieved from the sale of their cotton less an administrative fee composed of the costs incurred in marketing. PCCA’s fee is the lowest among pools who disclose their fees and is generally one or two dollars a bale below the cheapest competitor. Year-in and year-out, PCCA pool members will pay much less for marketing than they would selling through other avenues, and they will always receive the full benefits of price achieved, quality and weight gains, and any savings in shipping and handling costs. GROWER INPUT Each pool has a Marketing Pool Committee of representatives elected from among its members. The committees meet with PCCA staff on a regular basis where they receive market reports, discuss sales strategies, and authorize the marketing division to sell cotton according to current conditions. Contact Us 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