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Marketable Securities - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2017 | Dec. 31, 2016
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items] |  |
Marketable securities | $ 255.7 | $ 253.5
Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC |  |
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items] |  |
Net of assets transferred to the LLC | 34.0 |
Marketable securities | 250.0 |
Cost of the investment in LLC | $ 250.0 |
Percentage of share from profit of LLC | 95.00% |
Additional preferential share receivable in case distributions are below this base level | 95.00% |
Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC | Base Level |  |
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items] |  |
Distributions from LLC - aggregate annual base level | $ 26.7 |
Snake River |  |
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items] |  |
Loan issued by Snake River | 250.0 |
Snake River | Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC |  |
Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities [Line Items] |  |
Minimum amount annual distributions received from Amalgamated Sugar LLC will exceed Snake River loan interest payments | $ 1.8 |

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