Pig Price Today Philippines: Presyo ng Baboy (August 2026)

As of August 2026 there are two live numbers for the same pig, and the gap between them is the story. PSA's official survey puts national farmgate at ₱171.76/kg for June 2026, closing a quarter that averaged ₱172.44. SINAG's industry average, stated in May, is ₱180 to ₱190 per kilo, with trade quotes at ₱183–₱193. Both are honestly reported. They are not the same measurement, and if your buyer is quoting the lower one he is quoting the government's.

Read that again, because it is the whole story of this year. Cost of production is about ₱180/kg (SINAG and NatFed both say so, independently). On the official number, the average farm in this country is now selling its pigs for less than it cost to raise them.

Every week someone asks in a farming group: pila na ang presyo sa baboy karon? (how much is the pig price now?) The honest answer is a range, not a single number, because what you actually get depends on your region, your buyer, and the week. This page gives you that range and, more usefully, how to confirm the exact price near you today.

Last verified: 19 August 2026. Liveweight figures are checked monthly against PSA OpenSTAT, SINAG and DA reporting. The figures below hold within a normal month; a major ASF outbreak or import-policy change can move them faster, so use the self-check section before you sell.

Today's Pig Price (Liveweight, Farmgate)

These are working figures for a healthy 90–110 kg market pig sold to a trader or biyahero, August 2026. Liveweight means buhi, the live animal on the scale, not dressed meat.

Be clear about the floor, because it is the single most misunderstood number in the industry. The DA set ₱210/kg on 4 November 2025 with SINAG, NFHFI and PROPORK. Eight months of national data have printed since and the best was ₱187.06. It is an unenforced target. If a trader tells you "the DA floor protects you," they are quoting a press release, not your check.

One correction, because we had this wrong. This page used to say the same of every region. Our own regional data says otherwise: the Cordillera cleared ₱210 in April, May and June 2026, at ₱224.10 in the last of those, and BARMM and Central Visayas cleared it in late 2025. If you farm in Benguet, the floor is not fiction. Everywhere else it is.

The official series is PSA OpenSTAT, and it does not flatter anyone. Q3 2025 came in at ₱191.51/kg, Q4 2025 at ₱182.83, Q1 2026 at ₱176.03 and Q2 2026 at ₱172.44. We described Q1 as a slow climb when it printed, because January to March did rise. That reading was wrong. April, May and June came in at ₱174.00, ₱171.56 and ₱171.76, and May is now the lowest month in the series. It was not a climb, it was a pause.

The last time farmgate was genuinely good was June 2025, at ₱214.52/kg. That was a peak, not a normal level, and if you are still budgeting against it you are budgeting against a number that is a year gone.

Regional Prices: The Usual Story Is Backwards

Most pricing guides, including an earlier version of this one, tell you Luzon commands a premium, Visayas sits ₱15–₱25 below it, and Mindanao sits below that. The PSA regional data for June 2026 says otherwise, and the gap has widened since March.

Central Luzon, the supposed premium region, is sixth of the seventeen regions PSA published a figure for. Central Visayas is ₱27.68/kg above it. The spread that matters is not island group, it is local supply against local demand: a deficit province with hogs to buy pays up, and a surplus province with nowhere to ship pays down. SOCCSKSARGEN at ₱141.98 is not a Mindanao discount so much as a surplus-area glut.

Western Visayas is the row to look at twice. It fell ₱31.56 between March and June, the steepest drop in the country, in the quarter Iloilo confirmed ASF and Capiz closed its border. Movement bans strand pigs and the price is what gives. But Negros, where the outbreaks actually were, went up ₱3.10 in the same window, so this is about which province got cut off from its buyers, not about which province has the virus.

Which means: do not price your pigs off an island-group rule of thumb. Price them off your own province.

How to Check the Exact Price Near You Today

This is the part that never goes stale. A national average is a starting point; the number that matters is what a buyer in your town will actually pay this week. Five ways to get it, fastest first:

1. Call a biyahero or trader. The fastest real number. Ask what they are paying per kilo liveweight this week for a 95–100 kg pig. Get two quotes if you can; the first one is sometimes a feeler.
2. Check the DA regional price bulletin. The Department of Agriculture and its regional field offices post farmgate and wet-market price monitoring. It lags a week or two but it is an honest anchor against a lowball quote.
3. Ask your provincial Facebook farming group. Posts like "presyo karon sa [your province]?" usually get answered within hours by people who sold that same week. Discount the outliers, take the cluster.
4. Ask the wet market butcher. They know what they paid per kilo liveweight for what they are cutting today. Back-calculate from that.
5. Ask a neighbor who just sold. The most underrated source. Someone in your barangay sold a batch recently. What did they get, and to whom?

Cross-check at least two of these. One quote tells you what one buyer wants to pay, not what the pig is worth. The state of the industry dashboard tracks the rolling national farmgate alongside ASF status, so you can sanity-check the quote you just got.

What's Holding Prices Down (August 2026)

The short version: the national herd is tight, and it has bought raisers nothing, because imports fill every gap the herd leaves.

The herd stood at 8.93M heads on 1 July 2026, about 30% below the 12.70M of 1 July 2019, the last count before ASF, and up 2.6% on the April count. On paper that is still a supply shortage, and a supply shortage should mean pricing power. It has not, because 851,760 MT of imported pork came in during 2025, and on 19 May 2026 EO 116 raised the tariff-quota (MAV) volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT. Every kilo that lands is a kilo the local market does not need from you. That is the ceiling argument, and it is worth reading in full: we set the published import volumes against sixteen years of farmgate figures in imported pork and your farmgate price, and the two turn out to rise together rather than against each other.

Feed is the other side of the vise. Premium grower/finisher runs ₱34.90–₱38.20/kg (₱1,747–₱1,910 per 50kg bag) as of 12 July 2026, mean ₱36.69/kg. It has risen ₱1–₱2/kg through 2026 and no miller has announced a rollback. Corn is 50–65% of the formulation and its tariff was not cut; EO 62 stands to 2028. Feed is about 57% of hog operating cost, per PIDS, which is why a two-peso move in a feed bag shows up in your break-even fast. See the real cost of pig feed for the breakdown.

Then ASF, which is not over. BAI's last published national count was 8 active barangays across 7 provinces on 8 May 2026, down 92% from the 98 barangays of 31 December 2025. But BAI has published nothing national since, and the Visayas has flared badly since late June: San Enrique in Negros Occidental confirmed 23 June (1,902 hog deaths province-wide by 25 June, not all of them from ASF), Barotac Viejo in Iloilo on 29 June (its first case in four years), Bacolod and La Libertad in Negros Oriental on 1 July. Capiz red-zoned five LGUs and shut its border to pork on 24 June. Cebu banned Negros hogs and pork on 7 July under EO 39.

A movement ban does two things to price at once: it can spike local weaner and liveweight prices 15–25% inside a few weeks where hogs cannot get in, and strand supply and crater prices where hogs cannot get out. Check your province's status with the LGU or BAI before you plan a sale.

Liveweight vs What Hits Your Pocket

The ₱180–₱190/kg above is liveweight at the farm gate. It is not the retail pork price you see at the wet market, and it is not always what lands in your hand. A few traders still quote on a "dressed" or estimated-yield basis, or shave the price for shrink and handling. A pig dresses out at roughly 72–78% of liveweight, so a pig at the trade's ₱185/kg liveweight is not a ₱185/kg meat pig.

The gap between what you get and what the shopper pays is enormous. NCR retail on 12 July 2026: liempo ₱379.43/kg, kasim ₱327.55, pigue ₱325.29. You sold the animal at ₱172.44. The trader/biyahero margin alone is about ₱120/kg, per NatFed. That is where the money in Philippine pork is, and it is not on your farm. What pork actually sells for lines up all four levels, farmgate through retail, each with the date it was read.

If your buyer quotes dressed weight or back-calculates from a carcass, run the numbers before you agree. The full dressing-percentage math, a conversion table, and where farmers lose money in that step are in liveweight vs dressed weight: how to compute pig price.

For piglet and weaner prices, which move on a different cycle and spike hardest during ASF bans, see crossbreed pig and weaner prices.

Is the Current Price Actually Profitable?

Mostly, no. Not at the national average.

Cost of production is about ₱180/kg. The official national farmgate average is ₱172.44. On a 100 kg pig that is ₱17,244 in, ₱18,000 out, and roughly ₱756 of loss per head, before you have paid yourself for four months of feeding, hauling, or a single vet call that went sideways. One dead pig in a batch of ten wipes out the whole batch's profit.

That is not a reason to quit. It is a reason to stop pricing off the national average, because the average farm is break-even and you do not want to be the average farm. What actually separates the raisers who are still making money:

• Feed conversion. At ₱36.69/kg feed, the difference between an FCR of 3.2 and 2.8 is thousands of pesos a head. This is the biggest lever you have and the only one entirely under your control.
• Where you sell. Cordillera was at ₱224.10 in June and Central Visayas at ₱208.73. SOCCSKSARGEN was at ₱141.98. Same pig, ₱82/kg apart, ₱7,800 on a 95 kg animal.
• When you sell. December and the fiesta months pay; March and April do not.
• Not losing pigs. With margin this thin, mortality is not a cost line, it is the whole margin.

Run your own number before you take anyone's word for it, including mine.

• Per-head costs and the full itemized breakdown: how much it costs to raise a pig.
• Whether a batch nets a profit at today's price: pig farming profit on 10 pigs.

Timing matters too. Prices climb into December and the fiesta months and soften in the March–April hot season. If you can choose when to sell, the best month to sell a pig is worth more than chasing the daily quote.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much is a pig per kilo today in the Philippines?

PSA's official June 2026 monthly is ₱171.76/kg, and the Q2 2026 average is ₱172.44. The trade quotes higher: ₱180–₱190/kg (SINAG industry average) with eFeedLink at ₱183–₱193/kg. Verify locally before you sell, and ask which number your buyer is working from.

What is the DA floor price for pigs?

₱210/kg liveweight, set 4 November 2025 by the DA with SINAG, NFHFI, and PROPORK. It has never been met by the national average, nor by any region outside the Cordillera. It is an unenforced target, not a guaranteed price. Do not budget against it.

Why is the price different in my area?

Local supply against local demand, mostly. Deficit provinces pay up, surplus provinces pay down. In June 2026 that meant Cordillera at ₱224.10 and Central Visayas at ₱208.73 on top, Central Luzon sixth at ₱181.05, and SOCCSKSARGEN at ₱141.98. The old "Luzon premium" rule does not hold.

Is ₱185/kg a good price? (That is the trade's number. PSA's official Q2 2026 average is ₱172.44/kg.)

It is a break-even price. Cost of production is about ₱180/kg, so the average farm is clearing roughly ₱5/kg, which is ₱500 on a 100 kg pig before anything goes wrong. Beating that means beating the average on feed conversion, mortality, timing, and where you sell.

Tools and Related Reading

• Break-even Calculator (find the price you need to not lose money)
• Profit Simulator (model a full batch at today's price)
• Liveweight pig prices by region (deeper regional detail and the liveweight-to-dressed conversion)
• Crossbreed and weaner prices (piglet pricing and ASF-driven spikes)
• How much it costs to raise a pig (your side of the margin)
• Pig farming profit on 10 pigs (does today's price actually pay?)
• Best month to sell a pig (timing beats chasing the daily quote)

Sources

• PSA OpenSTAT: Average Farmgate Price of Hogs for Slaughter: 2026 monthly ₱174.00 (Apr), ₱171.56 (May), ₱171.76 (Jun), Q2 average ₱172.44; Q1 2026 ₱176.03; Q4 2025 ₱182.83; Q3 2025 ₱191.51; June 2025 peak ₱214.52; regional June 2026 figures, all of them published here as a downloadable series
• SINAG industry average, May 2026: ₱180–₱190/kg farmgate; cost of production ~₱180/kg
• eFeedLink trade quotes, May 2026: ₱183–₱193/kg
• BusinessWorld: Floor price for live hogs set at P210 per kilo (4 Nov 2025): DA ₱210/kg floor
• DA official portal: floor-price announcement and import-tariff position
• DA Bantay Presyo, 12 July 2026: NCR retail liempo ₱379.43, kasim ₱327.55, pigue ₱325.29
• NatFed: trader/biyahero margin ~₱120/kg; cost of production ~₱180/kg
• PSA Swine Situation Report: 8.93M head as of 1 July 2026, up from 8.70M on 1 April 2026; last pre-ASF count 12.70M (1 July 2019)
• EO 116 (19 May 2026): pork MAV raised from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT. 2025 pork imports 851,760 MT
• BAI ASF portal: 8 active barangays in 7 provinces as of 8 May 2026 (last national count published); Visayas outbreaks June–July 2026 per LGU and DA regional advisories
• PIDS: feed is ~57% of hog operating cost

Liveweight figures are planning figures verified 19 August 2026 and reviewed monthly. Actual farmgate price varies by location, week, pig quality, and ASF zone status. Always confirm with a local buyer before committing to a sale.