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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Short-term Debt [Table Text Block] |
|  | Weighted-average Interest Rate |  |  |  |
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  |  |  |  |  | (Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable (a) |  | 2.00% |  | 2.58% |  | $ | 521,864 |  |  | $ | 269,783 |
CHS Capital notes payable (b) |  | 1.23% |  | 1.68% |  | 367,448 |  |  | 533,839 |
Total notes payable |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 889,312 |  |  | $ | 803,622 |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments | Long-term debt as of August 31, 2013 and 2012 consisted of the following:
|  |  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  |  | (Dollars in thousands)
5.59% unsecured revolving term loans from cooperative and other banks, due in equal installments beginning in 2013 through 2018 |  | $ | 135,000 |  |  | $ | 150,000 |
6.18% unsecured notes $400 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 2014 through 2018 |  | 400,000 |  |  | 400,000 |
6.81% unsecured notes $225 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 1998 through 2013 |  |  |  |  | 37,500 |
5.60% unsecured notes $60 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 2012 through 2018 |  | 41,539 |  |  | 59,615 |
5.25% unsecured notes $125 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 2011 through 2015 |  | 50,000 |  |  | 75,000 |
5.78% unsecured notes $50 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 2014 through 2018 |  | 50,000 |  |  | 50,000 |
4.00% unsecured notes $100 million face amount, due in equal installments beginning in 2017 through 2021 |  | 100,000 |  |  | 100,000 |
4.08% unsecured notes $130 million face amount, due in 2019 |  | 130,000 |  |  | 130,000 |
4.52% unsecured notes $160 million face amount, due in 2021 |  | 160,000 |  |  | 160,000 |
4.67% unsecured notes $130 million face amount, due in 2023 |  | 130,000 |  |  | 130,000 |
3.85% unsecured notes $80 million face amount, due in 2025 |  | 80,000 |  |  |
3.80% unsecured notes $100 million face amount, due in 2025 |  | 100,000 |  |  |
4.82% unsecured notes $80 million face amount, due in 2026 |  | 80,000 |  |  | 80,000 |
4.71% unsecured notes $100 million face amount, due in 2033 |  | 100,000 |  |  |
Other notes and contracts with interest rates from 2.25% to 15.75% (a) |  | 50,493 |  |  | 68,238 |
Total long-term debt |  |  | 1,607,032 |  |  | 1,440,353 |
Less current portion |  |  | 156,612 |  |  | 108,211 |
Long-term portion |  |  | $ | 1,450,420 |  |  | $ | 1,332,142 |
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(a) | Other notes and contracts payable of $16.5 million were collateralized on August 31, 2013.
Schedule of Maturities of Long-Term Debt | Long-term debt outstanding as of August 31, 2013 has aggregate maturities as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands)
2014 | $ | 156,612 |
2015 | 164,022 |
2016 | 130,219 |
2017 | 149,832 |
2018 | 162,103 |
Thereafter | 844,244 |
| $ | 1,607,032 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest, net for the years ended August 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was as follows:
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
| (Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 99,271 |  |  | $ | 94,090 |  |  | $ | 83,044 |
Interest - purchase of NCRA noncontrolling interests | 149,087 |  |  | 113,184 |  |  |
Capitalized interest | (10,579 | ) |  | (8,882 | ) |  | (5,487 | )
Interest income | (6,212 | ) |  | (5,129 | ) |  | (2,722 | )
Interest, net | $ | 231,567 |  |  | $ | 193,263 |  |  | $ | 74,835 |

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