Pig Price Per Kg in the Philippines 2026 (By Region)

Two numbers, and they no longer agree. PSA's official series puts national farmgate at ₱171.76/kg for June 2026, closing a Q2 that averaged ₱172.44/kg. The trade quotes ₱180-₱190/kg (SINAG, May 2026; eFeedLink ₱183-₱193). A finished 95 kg pig is therefore worth ₱16,400 on the official number and ₱17,600 on the trade one, and with production cost near ₱180/kg the first of those is a loss. Nobody is lying. They are measuring different things, and you should know which number you are being offered.

Last verified 19 August 2026 against PSA OpenSTAT, DA bulletins, and SINAG figures. Next review: November 2026. Always confirm this week's number with your local viajero before you sell.

Farmgate liveweight price is the peso amount you actually receive per kilogram when selling a live pig at the farm or local assembly point. Before slaughter, before processing, before retail markup. This is the number that decides whether your batch makes money or loses it. If you don't track it in your area, you're selling blind, and in a market that dropped ₱42/kg between June 2025 and January 2026, that is how farmers lose whole batches of profit.

Current Farmgate Prices by Region

One thing first, so nobody gets misled. PSA's "hogs for slaughter" farmgate series is the only official one. It is monthly, it breaks out by region, and it runs about two months behind. The latest month with figures is June 2026 at ₱171.76/kg liveweight (PSA OpenSTAT), after ₱174.00 in April and ₱171.56 in May. That is a Q2 2026 average of ₱172.44/kg, down from ₱176.03 in Q1 and ₱182.83 in Q4 2025. July was surveyed and published blank, for every region.

The trade sits above the PSA print, and the gap is bigger than it looks. SINAG's ₱180-₱190/kg was stated as a seven-month average to May 2026. Run PSA's own months over that same window, November 2025 to May 2026, and you get ₱176.93, with a single month at or above ₱180. Both numbers are real. If a biyahero offers you ₱173, he is not cheating you, he is paying you the survey.

The regional pattern is also not the one every guide repeats. Luzon does not automatically pay more, and the spread between the best and worst region has widened to ₱82/kg. If you want to check that against the source rather than take my word for it, every figure in the table below is PSA's all-farms survey, and we publish it row by row as hog farmgate price by province, all farms. Which survey it is matters more than it sounds: PSA runs three, and for Central Visayas in June 2026 the all-farms figure is ₱208.73 while the household survey says ₱217.92 and the establishment survey ₱204.04. Same region, same month, three numbers. A raiser selling out of a backyard pen is in the household population; the table below is all three weighted together, which is the honest national comparison and is not what any one farm is paid.

Those are hard PSA numbers for June 2026, not a survey of ours, and all eighteen regions are published on our data pages with the provincial breakdown underneath. Pull yours from there or straight from OpenSTAT rather than trust a range someone typed into a blog. What the spread really tracks is local supply, ASF movement status, and how many buyers compete in your province. Distance from Manila matters much less than the old "Luzon premium" story claims. Skip to "how to check your current local price" if that is all you need.

Wherever you sit in that table, the arithmetic is tight, and it is the same arithmetic in Negros as in South Cotabato. Production cost is running about ₱180/kg. If your breakeven is ₱150/kg and farmgate in your area is ₱172/kg, you clear ₱22/kg, roughly ₱2,090 on a 95 kg pig. If your breakeven is ₱180/kg, you are not working for free, you are paying for the privilege. That is not a warning about some future crash. That is today. Hibal-i ang imong breakeven antes mobaligya.

Why Prices Differ by Region

Distance from Manila explains less than people think. Cordillera and Central Visayas both out-paid Central Luzon by more than ₱27/kg in June 2026. Five things actually drive the gap:

1. Logistics cost. Shipping a live pig from Bukidnon to Manila costs ₱15-25/kg in freight, handling, and shrinkage. That's money the farmer doesn't get. Even selling to Cebu from interior Visayas adds ₱5-10/kg in transport. Freight is a real cost, but it is not a Manila premium: Central Luzon farmgate was ₱181.05/kg in June 2026, about ₱9 above the national average and ₱43 below the Cordillera.

2. Local demand density. Cebu has a massive lechon industry. Davao has Kadayawan festival demand. Iloilo has strong institutional buying from hotels and restaurants. These local demand centers push prices up. If you're near one, you benefit.

3. Supply concentration. Regions X (Northern Mindanao, 14%) and IV-A (CALABARZON, 14%) produce the most pigs. High supply in Bukidnon means more competition among sellers, which pushes farmgate down locally.

4. Buyer type. Who you sell to matters as much as where you are. Against a ₱185/kg trade average, biyaheros (traveling traders) come in under it, roughly ₱170-₱185/kg, which is to say roughly at the official survey number. Lechon operators pay ₱10-₱30/kg over the local biyahero quote for the sizes they need (25-40 kg for lechon de leche, 70-90 kg for full lechon). Institutional buyers and direct-to-restaurant sales pay a similar premium but demand consistency. See the best month to sell for timing strategy.

5. ASF zone status. Under the DA's November 2025 zoning rules, every area sits in one of five tiers: red (infected), pink (buffer), yellow (surveillance), light green (protected), green (ASF-free). Pigs in red and pink zones can't move out freely, so supply gets trapped locally and farmgate drops.

5. ASF zone status. Under the DA's November 2025 zoning rules, every area sits in one of five tiers: red (infected), pink (buffer), yellow (surveillance), light green (protected), green (ASF-free). Pigs in red and pink zones can't move out freely, so supply gets trapped locally and farmgate drops.

The June data shows that effect, and it shows it somewhere you would not expect. Western Visayas fell ₱31.56/kg between March and June, the steepest fall of any region in the country, in the same quarter Iloilo confirmed its first ASF case in four years (Barotac Viejo, 29 June) and Capiz shut its border to pork (24 June). Movement bans strand pigs in the zone and the price is what gives.

But do not take that as proof. Negros, where the detections actually were, went up ₱3.10 in the same window. San Enrique in Negros Occidental was confirmed on 23 June, with 1,902 hog deaths province-wide by 25 June, not all of them from ASF. Bacolod and La Libertad in Negros Oriental followed on 1 July, and Cebu banned Negros hogs and pork on 7 July under EO 39. If ASF alone set the price, Negros would have been the region that collapsed. It wasn't. What moves your farmgate is whether the bans cut your province off from its buyers, not whether the virus is in your province. Check your barangay's current tier with your municipal vet or the BAI ASF disease situation reports before you plan a sale, and don't assume last quarter's status still holds.

Historical Quarterly Trend: The Full Story

The 2023-2024 rows are indicative ranges reconstructed from PSA bulletins and trade press. Everything from Q1 2025 on is hard PSA data, and the Q2 2026 row replaces the trade estimate this table carried in July, when PSA had not yet published the quarter. The estimate was ₱180-₱190. The actual figure came in at ₱172.44. That is worth remembering the next time anyone, including us, fills a gap in an official series with a trade quote.

From 2023 to mid-2025 the trend was a strong recovery. Farmgate climbed from the ₱160s to a record ₱212.58/kg in Q1 2025, up 16% year-on-year, and peaked at ₱214.52/kg in June 2025. A resurgent African Swine Fever wave plus La Niña had cut Q1 pig output 3.7%. Then it reversed and stayed reversed. Down through Q3 and Q4, then Q1 2026, then Q2. The floor of the whole series is May 2026 at ₱171.56. No month since June 2025 has printed above ₱200, and no national month has ever touched the ₱210 floor.

What Caused the Late 2025 Price Crash

Three things happened at once:

Record pork imports. Total meat imports in 2025 hit a record 1.64 million metric tons. Pork alone accounted for 851,760 MT of that. January 2026 imports continued at 143.84 million kg, up 4.23% year-on-year.

The reduced tariff schedule. Executive Order 62 kept pork tariffs low at 15% for in-quota and 25% for out-of-quota imports, well below the 30% and 40% that applied before 2021. It did not make that cut, which is worth getting right when you argue about it: the reduction dates to 2021 and EO 62 fixed it in place to 2028. The goal was cheaper pork for consumers. Instead, imported pork landed at around ₱120/kg, below the production cost of most domestic farmers, while liempo still sold near ₱400/kg at the wet market. Alfred Ng, vice-chairman of a national pork-producers' federation, argued tariffs are meant "to protect local farmers from unfair trade and the dumping of subsidized agricultural products."

Seasonal mismatch. The import flood coincided with the post-holiday demand drop in Q3 2025. Worst possible timing for domestic producers. Many backyard farmers in Visayas and Mindanao were forced to sell at or below cost.

What's Happening Now (July 2026)

The recovery that the early-2026 headlines promised did not arrive, and the Q2 figures ended the argument. January's ₱172.56 was not the bottom. April came in at ₱174.00, May at ₱171.56, June at ₱171.76, for a quarter of ₱172.44. Production cost is about ₱180/kg, a figure SINAG and NatFed reach separately. Read that again. At the official national number the typical farm is now selling a pig for about ₱8/kg less than it cost to raise, which on a 95 kg pig is ₱720 out of pocket per animal. Plan your next batch on that, not on a ₱220 number you saw in a table somewhere.

What is holding the lid down:

• The DA's ₱210/kg liveweight floor (4 November 2025, with SINAG, NFHFI, and PROPORK) has never been met by the national average. Eight months have been published since it was set and the best of them was ₱187.06. This page used to say the same of every region. That was wrong, and our own regional data said so: the Cordillera cleared ₱210 in April, May and June 2026, and BARMM and Central Visayas cleared it in late 2025. Outside those, nobody has been paid it. It is a target with no enforcement behind it, so unless you are selling in Benguet, do not budget around it.
• Imports keep filling the gap the herd left. 851,760 MT of pork landed in 2025, and EO 116 (19 May 2026) raised the tariff-quota volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT. Policy moved against producers, not for them. Industry groups are still lobbying to restore the pork tariff to 40%, with no decision yet.
• The national herd is 8.93M head as of 1 July 2026 (PSA), up from 8.70M on 1 April and about 30% below the 12.70M of 1 July 2019, the last count before ASF. Year on year it is still slightly down. A herd that has started building has still produced no pricing power, because imports arrive faster than the pigs do.
• Feed rose ₱1-₱2/kg through 2026 and no miller has announced a rollback. Premium grower and finisher runs ₱34.90-₱38.20/kg (₱1,747-₱1,910 per 50 kg bag) as of 12 July 2026, and feed is roughly 57% of operating cost (PIDS).
• ASF is back in the Visayas since late June 2026. That traps supply inside the affected provinces and pushes local farmgate down. It does not lift the national price.

Margins are negative at the average. If your cost per kilo is above ₱170, do not add heads. Fix the cost side first.

Liveweight vs Dressed Weight: Converting the Price

Most farmgate quotes are liveweight, the whole live pig on the scale. Buyers who pay by dressed weight (carcass after slaughter, bled, dehaired, eviscerated) are quoting a different number, and confusing the two is how farmers get shorted at the gate.

A Philippine market pig dresses out at roughly 72-78% of liveweight (native pigs run a little lower, well-finished commercial pigs a little higher). So a 95 kg live pig yields about 68-74 kg dressed.

To compare a dressed-weight offer against a liveweight one, multiply the dressed price by the dressing percentage:

• Dressed offer ₱240/kg × 0.74 = ₱177.60/kg liveweight equivalent
• Liveweight offer ₱172.44/kg ÷ 0.74 = ₱233/kg dressed equivalent

So a biyahero offering ₱240/kg "dressed" is paying you less than a neighbor offering ₱185/kg liveweight, and at a ₱180/kg production cost that difference is your whole margin. Always ask which basis the quote is on before you agree, and weigh your own pigs first so the buyer's scale isn't the only number in the room. If you don't have a scale, the heart-girth tape method gets you within a few kilos.

How to Use This Data: Practical Decisions

Regional price data is only worth something if it changes a decision. Five it should change:

1. Know your personal breakeven. A farmgate price of ₱179/kg means nothing until you know whether that's profit or loss for your operation. With the industry's average cost sitting at ₱180/kg, half the farms in the country are on the wrong side of that line and don't know it.

2. Time your sales. The Christmas window (November-December) normally adds ₱15-25/kg over the lean months. A 95 kg pig sold at ₱195/kg in December against ₱175/kg in January is a ₱1,900 difference, and on today's margins that swing is the difference between a profit and nothing. Just don't treat it as certain: Q4 2025 came in below Q3 2025. That much is ordinary, since seven of the last twelve years show a Q3-to-Q4 fall as the holiday production build lands. What was not ordinary is that December 2025 finished under December 2024. Plan your batch cycle to finish in November, then watch the import numbers.

3. Know your buyers. Biyaheros are convenient but pay lowest. If you can sell direct to lechon operators or small butchers, the extra ₱10-20/kg on 10 heads is ₱9,500-₱19,000 more per batch. At a ₱180/kg cost, that premium is not a bonus, it is the margin. Build those relationships before your pigs are ready.

4. Watch import policy. Not because it moves your price week to week, which it does not, but because it sets the ceiling your price can never go above. EO 116 (19 May 2026) raised the tariff-quota volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT, so the recent move has been toward more imports, not fewer. Industry groups want the pork tariff back at 40%; nothing has been decided. Follow the DA announcements, because a tariff decision will move your farmgate more than anything you do in your own pens.

5. Don't chase Manila prices from Mindanao. There is no Manila premium left to chase. Central Luzon farmgate was ₱181.05/kg in June 2026, ₱43 below the Cordillera, and freight to Luzon still eats ₱15-25/kg. Find premium local buyers (lechon, institutional) instead. The exception is a consistent Luzon buyer relationship with reliable payment.

Visayas/Mindanao Farmer Playbook: Where the Money Actually Is

If you're raising pigs in Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Iloilo, Davao, or Bukidnon, drop the idea that Luzon is where the money is. Central Visayas out-paid Central Luzon by ₱27.68/kg in June 2026, and Eastern Visayas out-paid it by ₱7.25 even after falling ₱18 on the quarter. Some regions genuinely are on the low side, Western Visayas at ₱152.75 and SOCCSKSARGEN at ₱141.98, and if you are in one of those the game still isn't matching a Manila number that doesn't exist. It's maximizing margin in your own market.

The Value Chain Gap You Can Exploit

Here's how the money flows from your farm to the final consumer:

NatFed puts the combined trader and biyahero margin at about ₱120/kg. A value chain analysis from Eastern Samar measured the biyahero's gross spread on native pigs at roughly ₱94/kg. Freight, shrink, permits, and handling come out of those figures, so it isn't all profit, but it is nowhere near the ₱10-₱20/kg the trade likes to claim. The distance between your ₱179 and a ₱327 kilo of kasim in a Manila wet market is the biggest number in this article. Every buyer you cut out puts more of it in your hands. (For reference, DA's MSRP since 5 December 2025 is ₱370 for liempo and ₱330 for kasim and pigue. The ₱380 liempo ceiling you may have read about is only proposed, not in force.)

Buyer Types: Who to Sell To (Ranked by Margin)

1. Lechon operators (₱10-₱30/kg over the local biyahero quote) The best buyers in Visayas. Cebu alone has hundreds of lechon operations. Rico's Lechon sells chopped lechon at ₱990/kg retail. They need consistent supply of the right sizes: 25-40 kg for lechon de leche, 70-90 kg for whole lechon. If you can deliver the right pig at the right time, they'll pay above standard farmgate and come back. The lechon de leche margin math is worth running before you commit a batch to it.

How to connect: visit lechon stalls in your municipal market. Ask who supplies them. Most lechon operators in Cebu, Iloilo, and Davao buy from 3-5 regular farmers. Getting on that list is worth more than any price table.

2. Small butchers and carinderia owners (₱10-₱20/kg over the biyahero quote, roughly ₱185-₱200/kg today) They buy 1-3 heads per week. Payment is usually same-day cash. The volume is small but the price is good and the relationship is reliable. Walk the wet markets in your area. Talk to the meat vendors. Most of them are looking for local supply because biyahero prices keep climbing.

3. Direct-to-consumer / fiesta sales (₱210-₱250/kg) During town fiestas, graduation, and holidays, families buy whole pigs directly from farmers. In Bohol, Leyte, and rural Cebu this is common. The price is negotiated per head, not per kilo, but usually works out to ₱210-₱250/kg liveweight, well above anything a trader will offer. The downside: irregular, seasonal, hard to plan around.

4. Biyaheros/viajeros (₱170-₱185/kg, below the national average) The default buyer. They come to your farm, weigh, pay, and haul. Convenient. But they know the price better than you do, and their entire business model is the gap between what they pay you and what they sell for. If you're selling to biyaheros, at minimum get quotes from 2-3 different ones. Never accept the first offer.

Seasonal Calendar for Visayas/Mindanao

For a Cebu farmer: buy weaners in July, sell in November-December. For Davao: consider the August Kadayawan timing for a premium window. For Iloilo: the Dinagyang (January) and Paraw Regatta (February) create local demand spikes.

Problem: "Ang biyahero naghatag lang og ₱175, pero ₱330 ang kasim sa merkado"

The most common complaint we hear, and this time the farmer is basically right. Freight, the 3-5% transport shrink, permits, and handling are real costs that come out of the trader's side. But NatFed's own figure for the combined trader and biyahero margin is about ₱120/kg. That is not a rounding error, and it is not the ₱10-₱20/kg the trade likes to quote. Trucking to Manila yourself doesn't fix it either, because you pay the freight without the trader's network.

Your better play is the buyer in your own province who pays over the biyahero quote: the lechon operator, the small butcher, the carinderia owner, the family buying whole for a fiesta. They exist. You just need to find them before your pigs are ready, not after.

How to Check Your Current Local Price

Any printed table goes stale fast. Farmgate dropped ₱42/kg between June 2025 and January 2026, so a number from two quarters ago is worth very little. Before you sell, check three things in this order:

1. Your local viajero or MAO. This is the real number. Call two or three traders who buy in your barangay and ask the going farmgate rate this week for your pig's weight class. Your Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) often tracks it too. Never accept the first quote as gospel.
2. PSA OpenSTAT. Go to openstat.psa.gov.ph, under Prices, then Farmgate Prices, for the official "hogs for slaughter" liveweight series. It is monthly, it breaks out by region, and it runs about two months behind. Pull your own region rather than a national headline.
3. DA price monitoring. The DA bulletins lean toward retail and wholesale, but they show whether the broad trend is up or down right now.

Use your region's PSA figure as the sanity check. If a viajero offers you ₱40/kg below the latest monthly PSA number for your region and nothing local explains it (no ASF movement ban, no glut), you are being lowballed. Get another quote.

Run Your Numbers

Prices change. Your costs are specific. Use these tools with your actual local data:

• Break-even Calculator: find your minimum selling price
• Profit Simulator: model different price scenarios
• Feed Calculator: estimate your biggest cost with precision

Related:

• Crossbreed Pig Price Philippines: prices by breed type and weight
• Pig Farming Breakeven Calculator: breakeven analysis with worked examples
• Cost to Raise a Pig: full cost breakdown per head

Sources: PSA OpenSTAT Farmgate Prices and PSA Livestock and Poultry Quarterly Bulletin (monthly farmgate: Apr 2026 ₱174.00, May ₱171.56, Jun ₱171.76, Q2 2026 avg ₱172.44; Q1 2026 avg ₱176.03; Q4 2025 ₱182.83; Q3 2025 ₱191.51; June 2025 peak ₱214.52; June 2026 regional: Cordillera ₱224.10, Central Visayas ₱208.73, Central Luzon ₱181.05, Western Visayas ₱152.75, SOCCSKSARGEN ₱141.98; July 2026 published blank for all 18 regions; national herd 8.93M head at 01 Jul 2026, up from 8.70M at 01 Apr 2026, vs 12.70M at the last pre-ASF count, 1 Jul 2019); Context.ph, May 2025 (Q1 2025 record ₱212.58/kg, +16% YoY); SINAG (May 2026 industry average ₱180-₱190/kg; ₱180/kg cost of production) and eFeedLink (trade quotes ₱183-₱193/kg); NatFed (₱180/kg cost of production; ~₱120/kg trader and biyahero margin); BusinessWorld, Feb 2026 (landed import cost ~₱120/kg; tariff rates); BusinessWorld, Nov 2025 and DA, Nov 2025 (₱210/kg floor price, SINAG / NFHFI / PROPORK; never met by the national average, met by the Cordillera in April, May and June 2026 and by BARMM and Central Visayas in November and December 2025); Manila Bulletin, Jan 2026 (record 1.64M MT 2025 meat imports; 851,760 MT pork); EO 116 (19 May 2026, MAV raised to 204,210 MT); BAI ASF disease situation reports (zoning status; Visayas outbreaks from late June 2026); DA Bantay Presyo (NCR retail, 12 Jul 2026: liempo ₱379.43, kasim ₱327.55, pigue ₱325.29); Rico's Lechon Cebu pricelist (lechon retail pricing); Value Chain Analysis of Sinirangan Pig, Borongan City (trader spread). Every PSA figure on this page is published as a downloadable series with its retrieval date. Prices verified 19 August 2026. Buyer-channel ranges are indicative trade figures, not PSA data.

Related reading

• Best month to sell pigs: Christmas, Holy Week, and fiesta timing premium math
• Crossbreed pig price by region: weaner and finished-pig prices by breed and area
• How long until a pig is ready to sell: market weight and finishing timeline
• Profit on 10 pigs: a full batch costed out at current prices
• When to cull and replace a sow: salvage value and replacement timing
• Pricing and Markets topic cluster: the full set of pricing and timing guides