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Seaboard Overseas and Trading Group (SOTG) is the agricultural commodity trading, processing and logistics division of Seaboard Corporation, headquartered in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, United States. Its business combines international commodity procurement and sales with grain milling, feed manufacturing and ocean transportation. Although it operates processing facilities, most sales come from sourcing agricultural commodities and delivering them to independent and affiliated customers internationally. Its overseas milling history began in 1966 with the acquisition of a flour mill in Guayaquil, Ecuador, through a joint venture. Expansion into Africa followed in 1968 with construction of a flour mill in Freetown, Sierra Leone. These activities developed into an integrated business focused particularly on African and South American markets.
Products
SOTG's principal traded commodities include wheat, corn, soybeans and soybean meal. Its wider commercial offering includes barley, oats, canola, sunflower seeds, cottonseed, bran and milling feed, alongside corn and cottonseed by-products. Vegetable oils, rice and flour are also identified within its product portfolio. These activities encompass both food commodities and raw materials used in animal nutrition. Processing operations produce wheat flour, maize meal, manufactured animal feed, oilseed crush commodities and other grain-based products. The group's milling facilities produce approximately two million metric tons annually, while its sourcing, transportation and marketing activities handle approximately 15 million metric tons of agricultural commodities each year. Procurement is generally undertaken from farmers, grain elevators and wholesale merchants. Its logistics operations coordinate bulk ocean freight using owned and chartered vessels, supplying both group operations and third-party customers. The combination of trading and processing also supports its assessment of grain origins, milling characteristics and purchasing requirements.
Export markets
Africa and South America are SOTG's principal stated market focuses. It sources agricultural commodities from multiple international origins and sells bulk shipments to independent customers, consolidated businesses and affiliated processors. Its trading network supplies much of the group's affiliated milling business, linking international procurement with local food and feed production. Confirmed commercial and processing locations include Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and the Republic of the Congo in Africa, and Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Guyana in South America. Its network also includes Caribbean operations in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti, with trading headquarters in Douglas, Isle of Man. These locations demonstrate its regional business presence rather than a complete list of export destinations.
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