Sandigo is a locality situated on Sandy Creek in the central part of the Riverina. It is situated along the

Sturt Highway Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions situated adjacent to the r ...

, about north west of

Kywong Kywong is a rural place within the locality of Sandigo in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the Sturt Highway, 520 kilometres south west of the state capital, Sydney and 64 kilometres west of Wagga Wagga. ...

and south east of Narrandera. At the , Sandigo had a population of 84 people.

Hazelnut Farming

Sandigo is home to a

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farming enterprise, led by the ''Agri Australis Pty Ltd'' company (owned by parent company

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). The land was purchased by Ferrero in 2011, seenvh dtszhgi jnogu&se as a suitable choice for hazelnut farming due to appropriate soil type and water availability. The biosecurity of the imported hazelnut plants (from

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) were cleared by 2012, and planting commenced in April 2014. The first harvest was in 2018.

Sport and Recreation

The Sandigo Football Club was formed in 1920, who wore the blue and gold colours and played in nine grand finals in their 11 years in the

Faithful & District Football Association The Faithful & District Football Association was an Australian Rules Football competition, based in the Riverina region of New South Wales first established in 1920 at a meeting of club delegates from the following football clubs - Greenvale, Fait ...

from 1920 to 1930, winning four premierships, in - 1921, 1922, 1928 and 1930. In 1929, Sandigo applied for admission to play in the Wagga based Second Grade Football Association, but was refused on the grounds that Sandigo could not fill their team with entirely junior players, but would require senior players to make up the team each week. After a long and protracted protest after the 1930 grand final with the

, Sandigo went into recess in 1931 and then joined the Narrandera Football Association in 1932. The club unfortunately folded after the 1932 football season.

Notes and references

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