Silly, silly question about commodity futures

[Overnight]

...I am sure they would go CRAZY and I'd be sold out in just a few hours. And I have no doubt taking a delivery at prices that are literally the wholesale of wholesale would let me sell the beef at those prices and still make a killing.

So, ETers, can this be done? I want my motherfuking COWS!!!

Thanks!

You would have the issue of public trust. Why would they want to buy slabs of meat out of the back of a van in a parking lot when they can go to the store and get it in a nice cellophane-wrapped package where they have been getting it their whole lives?

If you want to try this little experiment, find a dairy farm near you and offer to buy 1 cow/bull from the farmer, and bring it to your butcher friend. See how you do.

As it currently stands, it doesn't look like you can get much of a leg-up on the large processors.

 

[SunTrader]

Listen to Bart:-

 

[Tradex]

You would have the issue of public trust.

Believe it or not, I have seen men sell raw meat in New York City bars.

Steaks, pork chops you name it, and the customers were buying (including the bartender).