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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Feb. 28, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments |
| February 28, 2013 |  | August 31, 2012 |  | February 29, 2012
Notes payable | $ | 419,536 |  |  | $ | 269,783 |  |  | $ | 182,661 |
CHS Capital notes payable | 438,960 |  |  | 533,839 |  |  | 453,410 |
| $ | 858,496 |  |  | $ | 803,622 |  |  | $ | 636,071 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest, net for the three and six months ended February 28, 2013 and February 29, 2012 is as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended |  | For the Six Months Ended
| February 28, 2013 |  | February 29, 2012 |  | February 28, 2013 |  | February 29, 2012
Interest expense | $ | 23,219 |  |  | $ | 22,187 |  |  | $ | 47,655 |  |  | $ | 45,494 |
Interest-purchase of NCRA noncontrolling interests | 33,991 |  |  | 15,856 |  |  | 80,687 |  |  | 15,856 |
Capitalized interest | (2,694 | ) |  | (1,903 | ) |  | (5,596 | ) |  | (3,709 | )
Interest income | (1,131 | ) |  | (1,509 | ) |  | (2,151 | ) |  | (2,203 | )
Interest, net | $ | 53,385 |  |  | $ | 34,631 |  |  | $ | 120,595 |  |  | $ | 55,438 |

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