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

Three numbers now, and none of them is good. PSA's official series, the only one that breaks out by region, last printed ₱171.76/kg for June 2026, closing a Q2 that averaged ₱172.44/kg. PSA has not published July, August or September yet; the next release is due 6 November 2026. In the gap, the DA put national liveweight at ₱150/kg in August, and by October producer groups were reporting ₱120-₱160/kg in some areas. Cost of production is ₱180-₱190/kg. A finished 95 kg pig is worth about ₱16,400 on the last PSA number and ₱14,250 on the DA's August one, and either way it costs more than that to raise.

Last verified 16 October 2026 against PSA OpenSTAT, BAI, DA statements and news reports. Next review: after PSA's 6 November 2026 release. 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 has fallen from ₱214.52/kg in June 2025 to about ₱150 in August 2026, that is how farmers lose whole batches of profit.

The National Price, Month by Month

The line above is PSA's all-farms monthly series, January 2025 to the latest published month. The gap at the end is not a drop to zero. It is months PSA has not published yet, and the chart leaves them empty rather than drawing a line across them. When PSA's 6 November release lands, the gap fills in by itself.

What the line shows is a peak and a long decline. ₱214.52/kg in June 2025 was the high. By December 2025 it was ₱187.06, by May 2026 ₱171.56. Not one month since June 2025 has printed above ₱200.

What the line cannot show yet is the part after June 2026, and that is the worst part. The DA said in late September that liveweight had averaged ₱150/kg in August (Manila Times, 28 Sep 2026). That is a DA statement, not a PSA survey, and the two are not the same instrument, so I have kept it off the chart. When PSA publishes August, compare the two. If PSA lands near ₱150, the collapse is confirmed in the official record.

For the long view, PSA's household survey goes back to 2010:

That is the backyard raiser's own series, the price paid to household-scale farms. It shows a decade of ₱90-₱120/kg before ASF arrived in 2019, the jump into the ₱140s-₱190s as the herd collapsed in 2021-2022, the 2025 peak, and where the slide has brought it.

Current Farmgate Prices by Region

PSA's "hogs for slaughter" farmgate series is the only official one. It is monthly and breaks out by region, but PSA releases it in batches, so the newest month can be anywhere from about five weeks to about four months old. Right now it is at the long end: the latest month with figures is June 2026 (PSA OpenSTAT), and July to September are scheduled for 6 November.

So the table below is June. It is the latest regional picture anyone has published, and it is already out of date, because the price has kept falling since. Read it for the order of the regions, which tends to hold, more than for the level, which has not.

Every figure in that table is PSA's all-farms series, built from the archive and published row by row as farmgate price by province, all farms. Which survey it is matters more than it sounds. PSA runs two farmgate surveys, one of household farms and one of commercial establishments, and the all-farms figure is the weighted combination of the two. For Central Visayas in June 2026 the all-farms figure is ₱208.73, 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 all-farms number is the fair comparison between regions, but it is not what any one farm is paid.

The chart above puts five regions on one scale: the top two, the national average, and the two lowest in June. The gap between Cordillera and SOCCSKSARGEN is wide enough that both can be "the price of a pig in the Philippines" in the same month and differ by ₱82/kg.

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.

Since June: what the trade and the DA report

PSA's regional months after June are not out. What has been published is coarser, and it is not PSA:

• Luzon: about ₱162/kg in July and ₱154/kg in August, on industry data reported by BusinessMirror, 8 Sep 2026.
• Visayas and Mindanao combined: about ₱132/kg in both July and August, same source.
• "Some areas": ₱120-₱160/kg in September (Philstar, 21 Sep 2026), and ₱130-₱140/kg in October, according to the AGAP party-list representative (Daily Tribune, 2 Oct 2026).

None of these replaces the PSA table, and I have not mixed them into it. But they agree on two things. The price fell after June everywhere, and it fell furthest in the south. If you sell in Mindanao or Western Visayas, a ₱130s offer this month is probably not a lowball. It is probably the market.

The arithmetic is brutal wherever you sit. Production cost is running ₱180-₱190/kg. At ₱150 you are not working for free, you are paying ₱30-₱40 for every kilo you sell. If your breakeven is ₱150/kg, you are just covering cost. If it is ₱180, a 95 kg pig costs you about ₱2,850 more to raise than it brings. 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. CALABARZON (13.8%), Central Luzon (13.0%) and Northern Mindanao (12.9%) produced the most pigs in 2025 (production by region). 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. Biyaheros (traveling traders) pay the going local rate, which right now is the ₱130s-₱150s in most of the country. 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.

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 pig 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 pigs and pork from Negros on 7 July under EO 39, then extended the ban in August under EO 44 (Manila Times, 25 Aug 2026). 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.

The map moved again in September. ASF was confirmed in Cebu province itself, in Ginatilan (barangays Cagsing and Calabawan), and three Cebu City barangays, Pamutan, Toong and Buhisan, were declared hotspots (Daily Tribune, 24 Sep 2026). Going the other way, Negros Occidental had no new pig deaths after early August, and Iloilo resumed accepting its pigs from areas 50 days or more without a case (Philstar, 2 Oct 2026). New cases also turned up in Camarines Sur in August and in Cagayan in October. 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 table is built straight from PSA's quarterly rows. From 2025 it is the all-farms series this page uses everywhere else. Before 2025 the all-farms quarterly series is not in the archive, so the earlier rows are PSA's household survey, labelled as such. Q3 2026 shows as not yet published until PSA's November release.

An earlier version of this page filled 2023-2024 with "indicative ranges reconstructed from bulletins and trade press", including a "Christmas surge" to ₱200-₱208 in Q4 2024. PSA's own household series says Q4 2024 was ₱181.90, below Q2 2024's ₱187.41. There was no surge. The table now prints what PSA printed, and that is the lesson: do not fill a gap in an official series with a trade quote, including mine.

From 2023 to mid-2025 the trend was a strong recovery. The household series climbed from ₱162.94 in Q3 2023 to ₱209.71 in Q2 2025. On the all-farms series, Q1 2025 averaged ₱209.83 and Q2 2025 ₱211.91, the quarterly high, with June 2025 at ₱214.52/kg the peak month (Context.ph, May 2025 on the ASF and La Niña squeeze that cut Q1 2025 output 3.7%). Then it reversed and stayed reversed: down through Q3 and Q4 2025, then Q1 and Q2 2026. Q2 2026 sits 18.6% below Q2 2025. The national monthly price was above ₱210 from February to June 2025, before the floor existed. In no month since the floor was set in November 2025 has the national average reached it.

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.

Low tariffs, locked in. Executive Order 62 kept pork tariffs at 15% in-quota and 25% out-of-quota, well below the 30% and 40% that applied before 2021. The cut itself dates to 2021; what EO 62 did was keep it in place to 2028. The aim 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."

Bad timing. The import flood peaked in the second half of 2025, just as the herd was rebuilding and the Christmas production build was landing. Holiday demand, which on PSA's data only ever lifts December a little over November, was swamped. Many backyard farmers in Visayas and Mindanao were forced to sell at or below cost.

What's Happening Now (October 2026)

The recovery the early-2026 headlines promised did not arrive, and since June the slide has turned into a fall. The last PSA quarter was ₱172.44. The DA's August figure was ₱150. Producer groups in October describe ₱120-₱160 in some areas, losses of up to ₱50/kg, and an industry losing about ₱250 million a day (BusinessMirror, 9 Oct 2026). A Senate resolution has asked the agriculture committee to investigate low farmgate prices.

Two explanations are on the table, and both have a point. The DA Secretary called it a "fastbreak": raisers in and near ASF areas selling everything early before the virus reaches them, flooding the market, which would explain why Mindanao fell even though few imports land there (Daily Tribune, 7 Sep 2026). SINAG blames imports. Both mean the same thing for you: more pigs and more pork chasing the same buyers.

What is holding the lid down:

• The ₱210/kg floor is not a floor. It was agreed on 4 November 2025 between the DA and industry groups (SINAG, NFHFI, PROPORK), and the DA still backs it, but as a target. The DA has no legal power to enforce a farmgate minimum (Philstar, 21 Sep 2026). The national average has not met it in any month since. This page once said no region had either, and this site's own regional data said otherwise: Cordillera cleared ₱210 in November and December 2025 and again in April, May and June 2026, BARMM and Central Visayas in November and December 2025, and NCR in January 2026. Nowhere else, and with prices where they are now, do not budget around it.
• Imports are still rising. 602,655 MT of pork landed in January-August 2026, up 5% from 573,091 MT a year earlier (Philstar, 24 Sep 2026). EO 116 (19 May 2026) raised the tariff-quota volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT.
• A tariff increase is proposed, not decided. In September the DA sent a proposal to the Tariff Commission: 25% in-quota and 35% out-of-quota in 2027, then 30% and 40% in 2028, and it is weighing special safeguard duties. Producer groups want the old rates back immediately by executive order; importers call that inflationary. Until something is signed, the 15%/25% rates stand.
• The herd is not the problem. PSA counted 8.93M head as of 1 July 2026, up from 8.70M on 1 April and about 30% below the 12.70M of 1 July 2019, the last count before ASF. A herd this far below its old size still has no pricing power, because imports arrive faster than the pigs do. The next count is due 6 November.
• Costs went the wrong way. Producer groups now put cost of production at ₱180-₱190/kg, up from about ₱180 in May. Premium grower and finisher feed was ₱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). I have not found a newer feed price I trust.
• ASF is spreading and a vaccine has arrived. BAI's own count went from 6 active barangays in 4 provinces on 22 May to 293 in 31 provinces on 24 September, and stood at 226 in 24 provinces on 9 October (BAI bulletin, 9 Oct 2026). That is the backdrop to the DA's "fastbreak" explanation: more barangays at risk means more raisers selling early. Cebu province confirmed cases in September. On 2 September BAI cleared the first ASF vaccine for commercial sale, for fattening pigs only, through accredited vet outlets, and the DA is asking for ₱1 billion in 2027 to subsidize it for backyard raisers (DA, 2 Sep 2026).

Christmas 2026 has no DA forecast. Demand will rise; whether it lifts the price depends on how many pigs are dumped first and how much pork lands. Q4 2025 fell despite Christmas.

Margins are negative at the average, and deeply. If your cost per kilo is above ₱150, do not add heads this quarter. 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 ₱200/kg × 0.74 = ₱148/kg liveweight equivalent
• Liveweight offer ₱150/kg ÷ 0.74 = ₱203/kg dressed equivalent

So a buyer offering ₱200/kg "dressed" is paying you less than a neighbor offering ₱150/kg liveweight, and at today's margins that difference matters. 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. The full conversion guide has the tables.

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 ₱150/kg means nothing until you know whether that's profit or loss for your operation. With the industry's average cost at ₱180-₱190/kg, most farms in the country are on the wrong side of that line right now, and many don't know it.

2. Time your sales, but know how small the lever is. On PSA's household series, 2014 to 2025, the median month runs from 2.6% under its year's average (January) to 3.3% over (June). That is about ₱10/kg from trough to peak at today's prices, and the peak is May-June, not Christmas. December beats November every year, by a median 1.8%, about ₱3/kg or ₱285 on a 95 kg pig. Q4 2025 came in below Q3 2025, and that much is ordinary: seven of the 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 on that same series. If you are aiming at Christmas, aim at a Christmas buyer (point 3), and plan your batch cycle around that buyer, not the calendar.

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 today's prices that premium is not a bonus. It is the difference between a batch that loses badly and one that nearly breaks even. 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. The DA's tariff proposal is the one thing on the calendar that could lift that ceiling. If it is signed, the effect comes in 2027, not this Christmas. Follow the DA and Tariff Commission announcements.

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. But the south has also fallen hardest since June: the Visayas-Mindanao average was about ₱132/kg in August against Luzon's ₱154. Western Visayas (₱152.75) and SOCCSKSARGEN (₱141.98) were already the low end in June. Wherever you are, the game isn't matching a Manila number. 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:

Retail barely moved while farmgate fell. PSA's national kasim price slipped from ₱332.07 in July to ₱321.34 in September, about 3%. Over roughly the same months, the DA's farmgate figure fell from ₱171.76 in June to about ₱150 in August, about 13%. The gap between your pig and the consumer's plate got wider, not narrower. In NCR, BAI's weekly monitor still had liempo at ₱372 and kasim at ₱344 in mid-September (NCR retail data).

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. Compare like with like: your pig at ₱150 liveweight is about ₱200 per kilo of carcass, and the consumer pays ₱320-₱340 for a kilo of kasim or liempo. Every buyer you cut out puts more of that gap 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 still only proposed.)

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. Rico's lists its lechon de leche at 3-5 kg cooked weight, which means a suckling pig, not a grower. Boarcher Cebu Lechon in Quezon City roasts its jumbo from a 26-30 kg live pig (prices as of 7 October 2026). 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. In Cebu right now, ask about their ASF sourcing rules too: after the September cases, many will only buy from farms they know.

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) 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. Many of them would rather buy local and steady than take whatever the trader brings.

3. Direct-to-consumer / fiesta sales (negotiated per head) 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, and usually works out well above anything a trader will offer. The downside: irregular, seasonal, hard to plan around.

4. Biyaheros/viajeros (the going local rate) 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

The national column is computed from PSA's backyard farmgate series for the Philippines, 2014-2025: each month against its own year's average, median across the twelve years. The events column is where local buyers (lechon operators, fiesta families) pay extra; that premium is real but local, and it does not show in the national number.

For a Cebu farmer: a July weaner for a December lechon buyer still works, and a January weaner for a May-June sale catches the national high. For Davao: the August Kadayawan window is a local buyer premium. For Iloilo: Dinagyang (January) and the Paraw Regatta (February) create local demand spikes in what are nationally the two weakest months.

Problem: "Ang biyahero naghatag lang og ₱150, pero ₱320 ang kasim sa merkado"

The most common complaint, and 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, and ₱150 liveweight is about ₱200 per kilo of carcass, not ₱150. 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 fell from ₱171.76 in June to about ₱150 in August, on the DA's figure, so a number from even one quarter 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 and breaks out by region, but it runs two to four months behind. Pull your own region rather than a national headline, or use the regional data page, which carries the same rows.
3. DA statements and price monitoring. The DA bulletins lean toward retail and wholesale, but they show whether the broad trend is up or down right now, and in a fast-moving market the DA's own farmgate statements arrive months before PSA's survey does.

Use your region's latest PSA figure as the sanity check, then adjust for what has happened since. Right now that means expecting an offer well below June's PSA number. If a viajero offers you ₱40/kg below the current local going rate 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

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; Q2 2025 ₱211.91; Q1 2025 ₱209.83; June 2025 peak ₱214.52; household quarterly series back to 2010; June 2026 regional: Cordillera ₱224.10, Central Visayas ₱208.73, Central Luzon ₱181.05, Western Visayas ₱152.75, SOCCSKSARGEN ₱141.98; July-September 2026 not yet published, next update scheduled 6 November 2026; national herd 8.93M head at 1 Jul 2026, up from 8.70M at 1 Apr 2026, vs 12.70M at the last pre-ASF count, 1 Jul 2019; national retail Sep 2026 kasim ₱321.34, liempo ₱338.23); Manila Times, 28 Sep 2026 (DA: August 2026 liveweight ₱150/kg; tariff proposal); BusinessMirror, 8 Sep 2026 (industry data, Luzon and Visayas-Mindanao July-August); Philstar, 21 Sep 2026 (₱120-₱160/kg in some areas; ₱210 floor a non-enforceable target; safeguard duties); Daily Tribune, 2 Oct 2026 and BusinessMirror, 9 Oct 2026 (₱180-₱190/kg cost of production; losses; Senate inquiry); Daily Tribune, 7 Sep 2026 (DA "fastbreak" explanation); Philstar, 24 Sep 2026 (BAI: Jan-Aug 2026 pork imports 602,655 MT); Context.ph, May 2025 (Q1 2025 output fall); SINAG (May 2026 industry average ₱180-₱190/kg, now superseded) and NatFed (~₱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 agreed with SINAG / NFHFI / PROPORK; met by the Cordillera in Nov-Dec 2025 and Apr-Jun 2026, BARMM and Central Visayas in Nov-Dec 2025, NCR in Jan 2026, never by the national average); 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 (active barangays: 6 on 22 May, 293 on 24 Sep, 226 in 24 provinces on 9 Oct 2026), Daily Tribune, 24 Sep 2026, Philstar, 2 Oct 2026 and Manila Times, 25 Aug 2026 (ASF zoning and Visayas outbreaks); DA, 2 Sep 2026 (ASF vaccine cleared for commercial sale); BAI weekly price monitoring (NCR retail, w/c 14 Sep 2026: liempo ₱372, kasim ₱344); Rico's Lechon Cebu pricelist (lechon retail pricing, ₱990 a kilo chopped, de leche 3-5 kg cooked); Suroy.ph, Carcar lechon, 7 Sep 2026 (₱400 a kilo at the Carcar market); Boarcher Cebu Lechon price list (jumbo from a 26-30 kg live pig, prices as of 7 Oct 2026); 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. The seasonal medians are computed by this site from PSA's household farmgate series, 2014-2025 (each month against its year's 12-month average, median across twelve years). Prices verified 17 October 2026. Buyer-channel ranges are indicative trade figures, not PSA data.

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