Represents the one-time Federal blender's credits recognized as revenue.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3213-108585

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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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Segment Information - Pork Segment (Details) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
Segment Information - Pork Segment (Details) $ in Millions	Aug. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) segment	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Segment Information
Number of reportable segments \| segment				6
One-time Federal blender's credits recognized as revenue			$ 17
Forecast
Segment Information
One-time Federal blender's credits recognized as revenue		$ 42
Pork
Segment Information
One-time Federal blender's credits recognized as revenue			$ 17
Pork \| New Fashion Pork, LLP
Segment Information
Acquisition of business, cash consideration	$ 40
Pork \| Hog growing operations
Segment Information
Acquisition of business, cash consideration				$ 40	$ 219