Hawkins family sell southern Riverina farm, Glengarry

A 580ha dryland and irrigated farm in the NSW southern Riverina has changed hands in an eight-figure deal. See the details.

The Hawkins family have sold their 580ha farm at Hopefield after a four-year tenure.

A southern Riverina farming family has sold their expansive 580ha property, offloading it to another local farming family in what is understood to be an eight-figure deal.

Glengarry, a dryland and irrigated mixed farming enterprise 14km northeast of Corowa, has been sold after the Hawkins family listed it for sale earlier this year,

It was offered with a price guide of $9.5 million, excluding water, for about $16,350 a hectare.

It is understood the buyers - a local Riverina farming family - have purchased the property with some attached water entitlements.

The Hawkins family are based at Berrigan and purchased Glengarry in 2019 to run alongside their existing holdings; but they decided to sell due to succession planning.

Andrew Hawkins said the family brought in a Canadian consultancy, Farmers Edge, to complete soil analysis and prescribed lime and gypsum.

Glengarry at Hopefield has predominantly been used for cropping with some sheep production too.

During their tenure the Hawkins’ have run 600 first-cross ewes and lambs over about a third of the farm on pastures of lucerne, rye-grass and clover.

They have grown 3.85 tonnes to the hectare crops for canola and five to six tonnes with wheat across the balance of the property, however the entire property could be used for cropping.

Glengarry has historically been used for oat, barley, wheat, lucerne and canola crops in addition to sorghum, maize and adzuki beans.

The property has a stock and domestic bore supplying up to 90 litres a minute to a network of eight troughs, catchment dams, 100,000 litres in domestic rainwater storage and a 1600ML water entitlement sourced from the Upper Murray groundwater aquifer.

The Hawkins family also used five centre pivots covering 130ha.

Elders Real Estate selling agents Nick Myer and Henry Mackinnon handled the sale.

The eight-figure deal comes after cropping giant Lawson Grains purchased the late Angus Macneil and family’s 2860ha Green Park aggregation earlier this year.

Lawson Grains, backed by Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation, purchased the Macneil’s aggregation for more than $39 million to run alongside its neighbouring 8255ha Borambil Aggregation.