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Disclosures About Fair Value - Notional Amounts of Derivatives (Details)
Mar. 31, 2015
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Dec. 31, 2014
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Exchange Traded | Agricultural Commodities | Short    
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]    
Notional amount of nonmonetary derivative (agricultural commodities in tons, natural gas in millions of British thermal units, and forwards in tons) (104,590,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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= pico_AgriculturalCommoditiesFuturesMember
/ us-gaap_PositionAxis
= us-gaap_ShortMember
/ us-gaap_TransactionTypeAxis
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[1] (99,268,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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/ us-gaap_PositionAxis
= us-gaap_ShortMember
/ us-gaap_TransactionTypeAxis
= us-gaap_ExchangeTradedMember
[1]
Exchange Traded | Agricultural Commodities | Long    
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]    
Notional amount of nonmonetary derivative (agricultural commodities in tons, natural gas in millions of British thermal units, and forwards in tons) (79,533,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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/ us-gaap_PositionAxis
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[1] (85,602,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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/ us-gaap_PositionAxis
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[1]
Exchange Traded | Natural Gas | Long    
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]    
Notional amount of nonmonetary derivative (agricultural commodities in tons, natural gas in millions of British thermal units, and forwards in tons) (600,000,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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[1],[2] (690,000,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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[1],[2]
Non-Exchange Traded | Forwards | Short    
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]    
Notional amount of nonmonetary derivative (agricultural commodities in tons, natural gas in millions of British thermal units, and forwards in tons) (129,362,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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[1] (126,615,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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= pico_NonExchangeTradedMember
[1]
Non-Exchange Traded | Forwards | Long    
Derivatives, Fair Value [Line Items]    
Notional amount of nonmonetary derivative (agricultural commodities in tons, natural gas in millions of British thermal units, and forwards in tons) (59,820,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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[1] (29,666,000)invest_DerivativeNonmonetaryNotionalAmount
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[1]
[1] Exchange and non-exchange traded futures, forwards, and swaps are presented on a gross (short) and long position basis.
[2] Million Metric British Thermal Units.