As an industry we are working right now on a strategy to win back our market share. At the same time, we have to remember that if the packers and processors get a much better price abroad than here in Canada, that's also something they have to look at. Very likely within the next six months you will hear from us about what this strategy will be.
The Canadian pork industry is 100% Canadian-owned; we are quite an oddity in that sense. The U.S. market represents less than 30% of our total exports. Some are going to the U.S. but are not coming back as such, although some of our packers and processors do have near-ready products sold in Canada that are processed in the U.S., but not exactly from Canadian pork either. We have taken a look at the strategy.
If the prices keep growing, and we expect hog prices will in the next six months to a year, expect many of those that are on hold to come back. Also, especially what we call the integrators, the feed mills that own farms, will grow. We expect an expansion of the industry, because we lost five million hogs per year, mostly because of the COOL in the U.S., but that's another story. We have five million live hogs going to the U.S. Although we lost so many of our farmers, the slaughter in Canada never went down, so we were able to process as many as we had in the past.