Thank you, Martin.
I want to continue on with business risk management. During the past two and a half years our sector focused on ways to improve cashflow on hog farms and what was needed to move ahead through that difficult period, and you're quite aware of the asks that we have and improvements to the AgriStability program. In light of the time, I'm not going to go through them; you do have them in front of you. But those are consistent asks that we have, and we need that program to fix some of those inequities that are in there. They should all be done in as trade-friendly a manner as possible.
But as we do that, we're revisiting the issues of how we can keep our producers in business. We see a potential of a huge decrease in our hog production beyond where it's at. In terms of the export industry, the George Morris study shows that about 42,000 jobs are created through that and a $2.8 billion export industry. We think there's a potential of losing 50% of that industry yet.
So we have to find creative solutions. We need to work at that and we need to work with the Pork Value Chain Roundtable to do a long-term sustainable program.