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by teraflop 740 days ago
And yet milk futures are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/agriculture/dairy/class-iii...

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Here, dairy is stocked and sold without refrigeration, but that's probably not true in Chicago.

Maybe the difference is that new milk arrives twice a day, whereas onions are annual?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-n0DJFalY