Yes, I'm the poster boy of a bruised industry.
We are bruised, and just the ability to access credit, to be able to do the things and run our business the way we used to be able to is challenged.
The Canadian dollar, as Jim mentioned, is over 98ยข again, and so even though the American price has come up so dramatically, that negates a lot of that increase in value and just continues to hurt us. I think there are areas where the government can get involved...certainly Jurgen mentioned some of the improvements in market access, and we know there are still a lot of opportunities. Korea certainly is one of the biggest ones as well as the European Union. If we can move ahead and get some pork moving into Korea, it will make a huge difference. We know that China is open to us now. We think that's going to make a huge difference, and there are some other things the government can do.
We've talked about the issues around AgriStability. It was mentioned earlier. There are the issues of the negative viability test and the coverage on negative margins. Our problem is that the producers, with the situation they're in now, can't afford another crisis. So if an individual comes up with, let's say, circovirus or some other disease, he just can't weather that anymore, and he doesn't have the protection from AgriStability. So I think we need to make some changes to the AgriStability program.
I think the advance payment program has been a really good program for us. In actual fact, we talked about an additional stay next September. Our preference really would be to declare an emergency again, because many producers did not access the program when they could have, and in hindsight maybe they should have. Many producers did not access the full amount or didn't access it at all, and under the regular APP cannot access as much in any case. So that would be our preference, because quite frankly, the biggest challenge is getting access to credit.