Notes Payable and Long-Term Debt (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2015

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

	November 30, 2015		August 31, 2015
	(Dollars in thousands)
Notes payable	$	1,184,240	$	813,717
CHS Capital notes payable	510,123		351,661
Total notes payable	$	1,694,363	$	1,165,378

Schedule of Interest,Net

The following table presents the components of interest expense, net for the three months endedNovember 30, 2015 and 2014. 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 November 30,
	2015			2014
	(Dollars in thousands)
Interest expense	$	22,710		$	22,340
Interest-purchase of CHS McPherson noncontrolling interests	—			14,068
Capitalized interest	(13,659		)	(11,905		)
Interest income	(2,058		)	(2,598		)
Interest expense, net	$	6,993		$	21,905