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Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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May 31, 2016
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments |
| May 31, 2016 |  | August 31, 2015
| (Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable | $ | 2,691,633 |  |  | $ | 813,717 |
CHS Capital notes payable | 645,219 |  |  | 351,661 |
Total notes payable | $ | 3,336,852 |  |  | $ | 1,165,378 |
Schedule of Interest,Net | Interest The following table presents the components of interest expense, net for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2016, and 2015. We have revised prior period amounts in this table to include interest expense related to capital lease obligations that were previously accounted for as operating leases. See Note 13, Correction of Immaterial Errors for more information on the nature and amounts of these revisions.
| For the Three Months Ended May 31, |  | For the Nine Months Ended May 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| (Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense | $ | 43,979 |  |  | $ | 25,588 |  |  | $ | 98,886 |  |  | $ | 68,784 |
Interest-purchase of CHS McPherson noncontrolling interests | — |  |  | 4,844 |  |  | — |  |  | 23,772 |
Capitalized interest | (6,513 | ) |  | (17,104 | ) |  | (27,333 | ) |  | (41,715 | )
Interest income | (10,774 | ) |  | (2,548 | ) |  | (22,155 | ) |  | (7,384 | )
Interest expense, net | $ | 26,692 |  |  | $ | 10,780 |  |  | $ | 49,398 |  |  | $ | 43,457 |

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