Commitments and Contingencies	9 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]	Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies The Company may be involved in various legal actions arising in the normal course of business, from time to time. After taking into consideration legal counsel’s evaluations of any such action(s), management is of the opinion that their outcome will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company maintained a liability of $250,000 at October 31, 2023 and January 31, 2023, as a probable and reasonably estimable loss associated with a legal contingency for a patent infringement case involving our refined coal facility which is no longer in operation. At October 31, 2023, One Earth and NuGen had combined forward purchase contracts for approximately 13.8 million bushels of corn, the principal raw material for their ethanol plants, and they have combined forward purchase contracts for approximately 1.6 million MmBtu (million British thermal unit) of natural gas. At October 31, 2023, One Earth and NuGen had combined sales commitments for approximately 53.8 million gallons of ethanol, approximately 111,000 tons of distillers grains and approximately 14.2 million pounds of distillers corn oil. At October 31, 2023, One Earth had signed non-cancelable contracts for capital projects with approximately $38.1 million remaining in future payments, of which $31.2 million is related to One Earth’s carbon sequestration project and $6.9 million relates to planned plant expansion.

Commitments and Contingencies

9 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2023

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]

Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies

The Company may be involved in various legal actions arising in the normal course of business, from time to time. After taking into consideration legal counsel’s evaluations of any such action(s), management is of the opinion that their outcome will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company maintained a liability of $250,000 at October 31, 2023 and January 31, 2023, as a probable and reasonably estimable loss associated with a legal contingency for a patent infringement case involving our refined coal facility which is no longer in operation.

At October 31, 2023, One Earth and NuGen had combined forward purchase contracts for approximately 13.8 million bushels of corn, the principal raw material for their ethanol plants, and they have combined forward purchase contracts for approximately 1.6 million MmBtu (million British thermal unit) of natural gas.

At October 31, 2023, One Earth and NuGen had combined sales commitments for approximately 53.8 million gallons of ethanol, approximately 111,000 tons of distillers grains and approximately 14.2 million pounds of distillers corn oil.

At October 31, 2023, One Earth had signed non-cancelable contracts for capital projects with approximately $38.1 million remaining in future payments, of which $31.2 million is related to One Earth’s carbon sequestration project and $6.9 million relates to planned plant expansion.