Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited) (USD $) In Thousands, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Income Statement [Abstract]
Sales and merchandising revenues	$ 950,090us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet	$ 1,003,294us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet
Cost of sales and merchandising revenues	866,777us-gaap_CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold	926,519us-gaap_CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold
Gross profit	83,313us-gaap_GrossProfit	76,775us-gaap_GrossProfit
Operating, administrative and general expenses	78,604us-gaap_OperatingExpenses	70,985us-gaap_OperatingExpenses
Interest expense	6,039us-gaap_InterestIncomeExpenseNet	6,002us-gaap_InterestIncomeExpenseNet
Other income:
Equity in earnings of affiliates, net	3,261	20,501
Other income, net	3,107us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense	19,612us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense
Income before income taxes	5,038	39,901
Income tax provision	1,093us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	13,872us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Net income	3,945us-gaap_ProfitLoss	26,029us-gaap_ProfitLoss
Net (loss) income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(152)	3,321
Net income attributable to The Andersons, Inc.	$ 4,097us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	$ 22,708us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
Per common share:
Basic earnings attributable to The Andersons, Inc. common shareholders (dollars per share)	$ 0.14us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic	$ 0.80us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic
Diluted earnings attributable to The Andersons, Inc. common shareholders (dollars per share)	$ 0.14us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted	$ 0.80us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted
Dividends declared (dollars per share)	$ 0.14	$ 0.11

Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 505

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187085-122770