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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Feb. 28, 2014
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments |
| February 28, 2014 |  | August 31, 2013 |  | February 28, 2013
| (Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable | $ | 648,102 |  |  | $ | 521,864 |  |  | $ | 419,536 |
CHS Capital notes payable | 426,178 |  |  | 367,448 |  |  | 438,960 |
Total notes payable | $ | 1,074,280 |  |  | $ | 889,312 |  |  | $ | 858,496 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest, net for the three and six months ended February 28, 2014 and 2013 is as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended |  | For the Six Months Ended
| February 28, 2014 |  | February 28, 2013 |  | February 28, 2014 |  | February 28, 2013
| (Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 11,836 |  |  | $ | 23,219 |  |  | $ | 34,426 |  |  | $ | 47,655 |
Interest-purchase of NCRA noncontrolling interests | 21,273 |  |  | 33,991 |  |  | 32,397 |  |  | 80,687 |
Capitalized interest | (2,526 | ) |  | (2,694 | ) |  | (3,862 | ) |  | (5,596 | )
Interest income | (1,594 | ) |  | (1,131 | ) |  | (3,187 | ) |  | (2,151 | )
Interest, net | $ | 28,989 |  |  | $ | 53,385 |  |  | $ | 59,774 |  |  | $ | 120,595 |
We terminated interest rate swaps and recorded a resulting $13.5 million gain as a reduction to interest expense in our consolidated statements of operations for the three and six months ended February 28, 2014. See Note 9, Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities for additional information.

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