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Joint venture contract, term

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Ownership of joint venture partner

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 323

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of an equity method investment.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 323

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

-Paragraph 1

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 210

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-Section S99

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Cash dividends or other distributions received from unconsolidated subsidiaries, certain corporate joint ventures, and certain noncontrolled corporations that are returns of capital. Excludes dividends or distributions from equity method investments classified as operating activities.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Investments - Schedule of Investments (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Aug. 31, 2015	Aug. 31, 2014	May. 31, 2014
Ventura Foods, LLC
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage	50.00%
Equity Method Investments	$ 347.7
Ardent Mills LLC [Member]
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage	12.00%
Proceeds from Equity Method Investment, Dividends or Distributions, Return of Capital		$ 121.2
Equity Method Investments	$ 196.8
Horizon Milling, LLC [Member]
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage			24.00%
Equity Method Investment, Additional Cash Contribution		32.8
Equity Method Investment, Realized Gain (Loss) on Disposal		$ 109.2
TEMCO, LLC [Member]
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Equity Method Investment, Ownership Percentage	50.00%
Joint venture contract, term	25 years
Equity Method Investments	$ 57.7
Cargill, Inc. [Member] \| TEMCO, LLC [Member]
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Ownership of joint venture partner	50.00%