Related Party Transactions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Related Party Transactions	20. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Green Plains Cattle Company LLC The company engages in certain related party transactions with GPCC. The company provides a variety of shared services to GPCC, including accounting and finance, payroll and human resources, information technology, legal, communications and treasury activities. The company reduced selling, general and administrative expenses by $0.5 million related to shared services provided for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company had $2.2 million outstanding receivables related to the shared service agreement and expenses paid on behalf of GPCC as of December 31, 2019. Green Plains Trade Group, a subsidiary of the company, enters into certain sale contracts with GPCC during the normal course of business. Revenues subsequent to the disposition of GPCC were $4.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. Mr. Ejnar Knudsen, a member of the company’s board of directors, has an indirect ownership interest in GPCC of 0.0736% by reason of his ownership in TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP. Based on the purchase price, the value of that ownership interest is approximately $0.1 million. Mr. Knudsen also is the CEO and partial owner of AGR Partners LLC (AGR) which provides investment advisory services to TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement between AGR Partners LLC and Nuveen Alternative Advisors LLC, which is the investment manager for TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP. Aircraft Leases Effective January 1, 2015, the company entered into two agreements with an entity controlled by Wayne Hoovestol for the lease of two aircrafts. Mr. Hoovestol is chairman of the company’s board of directors. The company agreed to pay $9,766 per month for the combined use of up to 125 hours per year of the aircrafts. Flight time in excess of 125 hours per year will incur additional hourly charges. During the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, payments related to these leases totaled $129 thousand, $159 thousand and $182 thousand, respectively. The company had $17 thousand in outstanding payables related to these agreements at December 31, 2019 and no outstanding payables related to these agreements at December 31, 2018.

Related Party Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

20. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Green Plains Cattle Company LLC

The company engages in certain related party transactions with GPCC. The company provides a variety of shared services to GPCC, including accounting and finance, payroll and human resources, information technology, legal, communications and treasury activities. The company reduced selling, general and administrative expenses by $0.5 million related to shared services provided for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company had $2.2 million outstanding receivables related to the shared service agreement and expenses paid on behalf of GPCC as of December 31, 2019.

Green Plains Trade Group, a subsidiary of the company, enters into certain sale contracts with GPCC during the normal course of business. Revenues subsequent to the disposition of GPCC were $4.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Mr. Ejnar Knudsen, a member of the company’s board of directors, has an indirect ownership interest in GPCC of 0.0736% by reason of his ownership in TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP. Based on the purchase price, the value of that ownership interest is approximately $0.1 million. Mr. Knudsen also is the CEO and partial owner of AGR Partners LLC (AGR) which provides investment advisory services to TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement between AGR Partners LLC and Nuveen Alternative Advisors LLC, which is the investment manager for TGAM Agribusiness Fund LP.

Aircraft Leases

Effective January 1, 2015, the company entered into two agreements with an entity controlled by Wayne Hoovestol for the lease of two aircrafts. Mr. Hoovestol is chairman of the company’s board of directors. The company agreed to pay $9,766 per month for the combined use of up to 125 hours per year of the aircrafts. Flight time in excess of 125 hours per year will incur additional hourly charges. During the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, payments related to these leases totaled $129 thousand, $159 thousand and $182 thousand, respectively. The company had $17 thousand in outstanding payables related to these agreements at December 31, 2019 and no outstanding payables related to these agreements at December 31, 2018.