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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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May 31, 2014
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments |
| May 31, 2014 |  | August 31, 2013 |  | May 31, 2013
| (Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable | $ | 703,438 |  |  | $ | 521,864 |  |  | $ | 432,892 |
CHS Capital notes payable | 426,381 |  |  | 367,448 |  |  | 439,246 |
Total notes payable | $ | 1,129,819 |  |  | $ | 889,312 |  |  | $ | 872,138 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest, net for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2014 and 2013 is as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended May 31, |  | For the Nine Months Ended May 31,
| 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
| (Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 23,397 |  |  | $ | 25,649 |  |  | $ | 57,823 |  |  | $ | 73,304 |
Interest-purchase of NCRA noncontrolling interests | 23,862 |  |  | 45,574 |  |  | 56,258 |  |  | 126,261 |
Capitalized interest | (2,641 | ) |  | (2,567 | ) |  | (6,503 | ) |  | (8,163 | )
Interest income | (2,129 | ) |  | (2,262 | ) |  | (5,315 | ) |  | (4,413 | )
Interest, net | $ | 42,489 |  |  | $ | 66,394 |  |  | $ | 102,263 |  |  | $ | 186,989 |
In February 2014, 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 nine months ended May 31, 2014. See Note 9, Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities for additional information.

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