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Receivables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2017
Receivables [Abstract] |
Schedule of Deferred Purchase Price [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2017
|  | (Dollars in thousands)
Balance - beginning of year |  | $ | — |
Transfer of Receivables |  | 580,509 |
Monthly settlements, net |  | (31,907 | )
Balance - end of year |  | $ | 548,602 |
Schedule of Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable | Receivables as of August 31, 2017, and 2016, are as follows:
| 2017 |  | 2016
| (Dollars in thousands)
Trade accounts receivable | $ | 1,234,500 |  |  | $ | 1,804,646 |
CHS Capital short-term notes receivable | 164,807 |  |  | 858,805 |
Deferred purchase price receivable | 202,947 |  |  | — |
Other | 493,104 |  |  | 380,956 |
| 2,095,358 |  |  | 3,044,407 |
Less allowances and reserves | 225,726 |  |  | 163,644 |
Total receivables | $ | 1,869,632 |  |  | $ | 2,880,763 |

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