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Beware the the ‘bok choy effect’.

New Zealand needs to work hard on developing special trading relationships with Japan and Mexico, according to the Head of Global Agri for KPMG, Ian Proudfoot.

The head of global agri for KPMG, Ian Proudfoot says he has concerns that the apparent fast recovery in dairy prices is leading to complacency which is a problem.

Dairy and milk processing are the New Zealand destinations for overseas investors’ wealth -- not sheep and beef, says a report on cash inflows of the last two years.

New Zealand dairy farmers need to have a greater passion for the milk they produce beyond the farmgate, according to KPMG’s head of global agri, Ian Proudfoot.

A newly published report by KPMG shows that in the last two years China has been the single biggest offshore investor in the New Zealand dairy sector, placing 28% of the $1.3 billion that came into dairy and milk processing from offshore.

New Zealand grows probably less than half a percent of the global food supply so everything we grow is artisan, says KPMG's global head of agribusiness Ian Proudfoot.

KPMG's global head of agriculture Ian Proudfoot, who is British, says the outcome of the Brexit referendum was plain to see for several months.

Prime Minister John Key's visit to the UK and Europe last week was good timing given the Brexit decision.

Books and music company Amazon is moving into food and you can't ignore the power it will have, says Ian Proudfoot, KPMG's global head of agribusiness.