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Fair value, after the effects of master netting arrangements, of a financial asset or other contract with one or more underlyings, notional amount or payment provision or both, and the contract can be net settled by means outside the contract or delivery of an asset, expected to be settled within one year or normal operating cycle, if longer. Includes assets not subject to a master netting arrangement and not elected to be offset.

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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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	Apr. 30, 2020 USD ($) bu	Oct. 31, 2019 USD ($) bu	Apr. 30, 2019 USD ($)
Derivatives, Fair Value
Cash collateral (restricted cash)	$ 351,068	$ 52,516	$ 399,875
Financial Assets	359,269	$ 823,098
Derivative liabilities	241,650
Accounts Payable
Derivatives, Fair Value
Derivative liabilities held by broker	$ 40,000
Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	2,640,000	7,495,000
Additional nonmonetary notional amount \| bu	1,305,000	4,000,000
Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Derivatives held by a broker
Derivatives, Fair Value
Cash collateral (restricted cash)	$ 0	$ 0
Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Long/Purchase position \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	150,000	3,345,000
Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Short/Sale position \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	1,185,000	4,150,000
Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	1,246,000	5,398,000
Additional nonmonetary notional amount \| bu	950,000	4,000,000
Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Derivatives held by a broker
Derivatives, Fair Value
Cash collateral (restricted cash)	$ 351,000	$ 52,000
Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Long/Purchase position \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	50,000	2,131,000
Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Short/Sale position \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Total nonmonetary notional amount outstanding \| bu	246,000	3,267,000
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
Derivatives, Fair Value
Financial Assets	$ 359,269	$ 823,098
Derivative liabilities	241,650
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments \| Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Financial Assets	359,269	612,713
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments \| Granite Falls Energy, LLC Excluding Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Ethanol Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Financial Assets		114,562
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments \| Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Corn Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Financial Assets		20,060
Derivative liabilities	227,550
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments \| Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC \| Ethanol Contracts
Derivatives, Fair Value
Financial Assets		$ 75,763
Derivative liabilities	$ 14,100