Explore our full suite of marketing choices:

Seasonal Marketing Pools, Pool+, Cash Marketing Choices, Forward Contracts, Pima Pool

We know no two farming operations are the same. That’s why our team of experts has developed a full suite of marketing choices for our farmers. No matter what your needs or preferences are, we have a marketing solution for you. Keep reading to learn more.

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Pool Marketing

Capture optimal marketing opportunities throughout the marketing cycle.

PCCA Pool marketing is acreage-based so there’s no weather risk. You’ll be able to focus on farming while our professional traders watch the markets. Our full season pricing model minimizes downside price risks, and can leverage PCCA’s global customer relationships. Pool growers also receive full CCC loan premiums and timely progress payments distributed as the pool is marketed.

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.

Pool+

A smarter, easier way to capture market upside.

Pool+ is a flexible pricing program that enhances your ability to manage price risk and capture upside potential to add value to your pool production, all without the hassle of setting up a brokerage account. This pricing tool gives you more control, opportunity, and flexibility. It has marketing power built in.

Pool+ Pricing Adjustments

Members have the choice to implement Pool+ Call and Pool+ Put pricing strategies for their share of production. You’ll choose your preferred futures reference month, bale volume (in 50-bale increments) and price reference. Pricing strategies can be modified to be short-dated as needed to align with a level you are comfortable with. Pricing adjustment results are applied to your aggregated physical pool bales as deductions or additions.

No Margin, No Brokerage, Just Results

There’s no margin requirement or brokerage account needed as Pool+ is attached to your current pool contracts. Pricing costs are handled directly through your cotton statements as a deduction, simplifying the process from start to finish. Positive adjustments to pool proceeds are distributed upon request when you are finished applying pricing adjustments and have completed pool deliveries. You’ll receive electronic confirmations anytime adjustments have been applied, and your pricing positions will be available on Member Access and the myPCCA app.

Participation Made Easy

To utilize Pool+, all you need to do is:
Enroll in the Seasonal Pool (during the enrollment period). Complete a Pool+ enrollment form (provide acres and APH for all Pool farms). Enroll in Member Access and ACH.

Cash Marketing

Market your cotton after harvest.

With the right tools, marketing at harvest can help you create opportunities to make your cotton rise to the top. PCCA provides two cash marketing options for our grower-owners to market their cotton after harvest. PCCA offers exclusive access to The Seam®, the world’s largest and most reliable online trading platform. Marketing your cash cotton online allows you to maximize your price. The Seam provides access to virtually all cotton buyers eliminating the need for burdensome manual negotiations. PCCA Direct provides the convenience of receiving competitive prices at your fingertips. It allows our team to reach out to you through the myPCCA app or your co-op gin with an offer to purchase your cotton. PCCA Direct On-Call provides growers the ability to stay long in the market without being long physical bales. Growers that believe cotton futures will increase are most likely to benefit from this tool.

PCCA Direct

Sign up to receive and accept bids anywhere on the go with your mobile device. Our Sales and Member Services teams can assist with any bids you request or receive. Consult with a member of our marketing team to develop the best approach to cash marketing. Growers can accept, reject, or counteroffer with the PCCA team through the myPCCA app. LDP payments are automatically processed, when applicable, for eligible cotton. Payment deferral option available. Participants are patrons of the Marketing Division and receive any dividends allocated by that division.

Direct On-Call

Only physical bales are eligible(must be ginned and classed). Offers growers the opportunity to set or lock in the basis level on a recap today without locking in the price
Charges stop accruing (warehousing, etc.). Growers receive full loan value less customary charges at the time of initial invoicing, which helps meet cash flow needs. Growers can place a GTC order to set the final price if the market moves to the desired level. Roll feature gives growers additional time to fix the price of their cotton. Choose a new futures month to establish a new basis level to roll at any time before pricing deadline or roll date. Rolling these will incur a basis adjustment of 10 points plus the difference between months, but in no instance can basis be improved or rolled beyond July futures.

The Seam

Online access to the largest network of global buyers and textile mills. Having your cotton offered continuously gives you opportunities to capture sudden rises in the market and capitalize on favorable price movements. PCCA’s Loan Advance Program provides upfront cash flow and allows you to trade the equity portion online in a separate transaction
LDP payments are automatically processed, when applicable, for eligible cotton. Payment deferral option available. Participants are patrons of the Marketing Division and receive any dividends allocated by that division.

Forward Contracts

Market your cotton prior to harvest.

Forward contracts can provide excellent opportunities to lock in pricing on bales. Because these contracts require the delivery of committed bales, this tool is best suited for growers with proven production history.

Growers can place good-til-canceled (GTC) orders to help them achieve their price target

LDP payments are automatically processed, when applicable, for eligible cotton

Deferred payment option available

Pima Marketing Pool

Capture added value from specialty fiber.

Pima cotton is world-renowned for its use in ultra-high-quality textiles and apparel. Growers in West Texas are increasing the acreage of Pima to capture the added value from this specialty fiber. PCCA’s Pima Marketing Pool provides a trusted, local solution to reach expanding global markets. Our Pima Marketing Pool is an acreage-based agreement that automatically renews each season unless the grower-owner elects to cancel it each year during the annual Sign Out Period. PCCA’s Board of Directors sets an initial advance payment rate at harvest and makes payments to growers as cotton is received and sold. As grower-owners of PCCA, Pima Pool members are also eligible for a year-end dividend.

For more information about PCCA’s Pima Marketing Pool, please contact David Canale or Aubry Heinrich at (806) 763-8011.

Acreage-based contract eliminates weather production risks

Managed by a local team of professional traders and analysts, allowing you to focus on your farming operation

Benefits from PCCA's global customer network

Timely progress payments distributed as seasonal sales advance

Payment deferral option available

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