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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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May. 31, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments |
| May 31, 2015 |  | August 31, 2014
| (Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable | $ | 912,905 |  |  | $ | 840,699 |
CHS Capital notes payable | 359,143 |  |  | 318,774 |
Total notes payable | $ | 1,272,048 |  |  | $ | 1,159,473 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest, net for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2015 and 2014 is as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended May 31, |  | For the Nine Months Ended May 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
| (Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 24,365 |  |  | $ | 23,397 |  |  | $ | 64,975 |  |  | $ | 57,823 |
Interest-purchase of NCRA noncontrolling interests | 4,844 |  |  | 23,862 |  |  | 23,772 |  |  | 56,258 |
Capitalized interest | (17,104 | ) |  | (2,641 | ) |  | (41,715 | ) |  | (6,503 | )
Interest income | (2,548 | ) |  | (2,129 | ) |  | (7,384 | ) |  | (5,315 | )
Interest, net | $ | 9,557 |  |  | $ | 42,489 |  |  | $ | 39,648 |  |  | $ | 102,263 |
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 Statement of Operations for the nine months ended May 31, 2014. See Note 12, Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities for additional information.

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