ABSTRACT
Producer mixed lots (bales) downgraded due to bark are priced lower and producers tend to feel they sell quicker than lots not reduced for bark, resulting in a "good buy" for merchants and/or mills. Producers feel barky lots bear unjust or excessive price discounts relative to their end use value. An overview of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) TELCOT trading on the 1990 and 1991 crops sheds little light on the feeling that barky lots sell quicker. Factors other than percent barky bales in a lot seem to be more important in determining when a lot sells.
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