I can start with your question about CAIS or AgriStability. Probably part of your questions arise because when we are talking about what is going out to the industry in the short term in the form of payments through existing programs, for the 2006 year it is still under the CAIS program, but for the 2007 program year the AgriStability program kicks in. So because we're in the middle of two and we're doing, for example, 2007 interims, those are on the AgriStability program, whereas the 2006 final payments are on the CAIS program. They are both margin-based programs.
I'm not going to go over the entire consultation process, because you've heard that before, but we are working with producers in terms of how we would replace CAIS. A number of producers have said--and you heard today as well--that margin-based programming does work for them, so they were very reluctant to move away from the margin-based programming as part of the suite. However, there were a number of things they didn't like about it, things such as the inventory evaluation, P1 and P2, and negative margin. They even talked about some areas of structural change. Those are all being implemented in AgriStability, as well as a lot of administrative tools that they asked us to put into place so that we can keep responsiveness but still be able to deal with a more bankable, predictable program. So that is where the difference between AgriStability and CAIS is.
We are very committed to improving the speed at which we deliver. We're here to talk about the livestock sectors. We did put a priority on livestock payments for 2006 producers, especially in the hog sector. We also put out, as my colleague Krista told you, targeted advancements in a number of jurisdictions. As an example, while we talk about how much has gone out, as one example, the target advance payment represents about 60% of the final payment for 2007.
For hog producers in Manitoba, there are about 500 producers that were eligible for about $51 million in Manitoba just in 60% of the advances. To date, 302 producers have actually taken over $35 million on advance, and that's about an average of $117,500 per producer. So that is what we're trying to do with an existing program.
If you'd like me to, I can speak about what we're doing in the future.