Cotton, water and Angus Taylor: how the minister's firm struggled to make farms pay

Growth Farms Australia managed two Queensland properties under difficult circumstances until 2014, three years before the government bought their water rights

Another layer has been added to the convoluted story of Angus Taylor’s involvement in the two cotton farms that sold water to the federal government in a contentious $80m deal in 2017, shedding light on the farms’ difficult circumstances before the sale.

Growth Farms Australia, a company in which the energy minister holds an interest, was the agricultural manager of the two farms for about six years until 2014, sources have told Guardian Australia.

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