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 Mission: To enhance the profitability of grower-owners and gins through value-added marketing programs and services.

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.

1996

1996

We begin offering our marketing services to growers in Central Texas and Kansas.

2000

2000

We join other leading agri-businesses to form The Seam® a web-based electronic marketing system that provides our grower-owners with access to a larger number of cotton buyers, ensuring the most competitive price possible. The Seam has since expanded into other commodities and technology solutions. PCCA and its grower-owners maintain significant ownership in this innovative company.

2013

2013

Module Tracking is developed by PCCA’s Information Systems team and offered as another unique service to cooperative gins. In following years, the development Module Truck Tracking came about.