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Supplemental Cash Flow and Other Information (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2012
Supplemental Cash Flow Elements [Abstract] |
Schedule of Cash Flow, Supplemental Disclosures | Additional information concerning supplemental disclosures of cash flow activities for the years ended August 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 is as follows:
| 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
| (Dollars in thousands)
Net cash paid during the period for: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest | $ | 155,888 |  |  | $ | 73,557 |  |  | $ | 65,400 |
Income taxes | 27,671 |  |  | 1,046 |  |  | 15,899 |
Other significant noncash investing and financing transactions: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Capital equity certificates exchanged for Preferred Stock |  |  |  |  |  |  | 36,674 |
Capital equity certificates cancelled for fiscal 2009 patronage losses in wholesale crop nutrients |  |  |  |  |  |  | 60,154 |
Capital equity certificates issued in exchange for Ag acquisitions | 29,155 |  |  | 6,453 |  |  | 616 |
Accrual of dividends and equities payable | (578,809 | ) |  | (400,216 | ) |  | (210,435 | )

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