As of October 2026 there are two kinds of number for the same pig, and you need both. The latest official figure is still PSA's: ₱171.76/kg for June 2026, closing a second quarter that averaged ₱172.44. PSA has not yet published July, August or September; its next update is due 6 November 2026, so the official series is running about four months behind the market.
The market did not wait. The Department of Agriculture said in late September that the national liveweight price was ₱150/kg in August 2026, against ₱215 in June 2025. Industry data put Luzon at ₱153.72 and the Visayas and Mindanao together at ₱131.66 for August, and producer groups were reporting ₱120–₱160/kg in some areas into October. Those are DA and industry statements, not PSA, and they are not averaged with it here.
Read that again, because it is the whole story of this year. Cost of production is now ₱180–₱190/kg, per producer groups quoted in October. The slow slide below cost that ran through the first half of the year turned into a collapse after June. At ₱150, the average raiser loses ₱30–₱40 on every kilo they sell.
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: 16 October 2026. Liveweight figures are checked monthly against PSA OpenSTAT, DA statements and industry 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, as of October 2026. Liveweight means buhi, the live animal on the scale, not dressed meat.
| Source | Liveweight farmgate (₱/kg) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DA, national (August 2026) | ₱150 | DA statement, Sep 2026. Was ₱215 in June 2025 |
| Industry data, Luzon (Jul / Aug 2026) | ₱162.16 / ₱153.72 | Producer-group data, not PSA |
| Industry data, Visayas + Mindanao (Jul / Aug 2026) | ₱131.98 / ₱131.66 | Producer-group data, not PSA |
| "Some areas" (Sep–Oct 2026) | ₱120–₱160 | Reported by producer groups and the press |
| PSA official monthly (June 2026) | ₱171.76 | The latest official month. Apr ₱174.00, May ₱171.56 |
| PSA official quarter (Q2 2026) | ₱172.44 | The latest official quarter. Fourth falling quarter in a row |
| ₱210 floor (agreed 4 Nov 2025) | ₱210 | Industry target, DA-backed, not enforceable. Never met nationally since it was set |
Be clear about the floor, because it is the single most misunderstood number in the industry. ₱210/kg was agreed on 4 November 2025 by the DA with SINAG, NFHFI and PROPORK. It is an industry target the DA backs; the DA has no legal power to make it mandatory, and the industry re-proposed it in September 2026. Eight months of national data have printed since it was set and the best was ₱187.06. If a trader tells you "the DA floor protects you," they are quoting a press release, not your check.
One correction, because I had this wrong. This page used to say the same of every region. The regional data on this site says otherwise: since the floor was set, the Cordillera cleared ₱210 in five months (November and December 2025, then April, May and June 2026, at ₱224.10 in the last of those), BARMM and Central Visayas in November and December 2025, and Metro Manila in January 2026 at ₱250. If you farm in Benguet, the floor has not been fiction. For most raisers in most months, it has.
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. This page 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 the lowest month in the published series. It was not a climb, it was a pause, and the DA's August figure says the fall since has been far steeper.
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 more than 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, still the newest regional month PSA has published, says otherwise, and the gap has widened since March. (The industry's August split, Luzon ₱153.72 against Visayas+Mindanao ₱131.66, does put Luzon on top, but it lumps two island groups together and is not PSA's regional series.)
| Region | Liveweight farmgate (₱/kg), Jun 2026 | vs March |
|---|---|---|
| Cordillera (CAR) | ₱224.10 | +₱15.22 |
| Central Visayas | ₱208.73 | +₱17.81 |
| Central Luzon | ₱181.05 | +₱2.64 |
| Negros Island Region | ₱166.29 | +₱3.10 |
| Western Visayas | ₱152.75 | -₱31.56 |
| SOCCSKSARGEN | ₱141.98 | -₱10.65 |
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 short of pigs 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ask the wet market butcher. They know what they paid per kilo liveweight for what they are cutting today. Back-calculate from that.
- 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 (October 2026)
The short version: the national herd is tight, and it has bought raisers nothing, because imports fill every gap the herd leaves. Why the price fell so hard after June is disputed, and both sides are worth hearing. DA Secretary Tiu Laurel blames an ASF-fear "fastbreak": raisers dumping stock early, which would explain why Mindanao fell even though few imports land there. SINAG blames imports.
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. January to August 2026 brought in another 602,655 MT, up 5% on the same months of 2025, per BAI. The DA has sent the Tariff Commission a proposal to raise pork tariffs from today's 15% in-quota / 25% out-quota to 25%/35% in 2027 and 30%/40% in 2028; nothing has been signed as of mid-October. 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: I 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 pig 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 latest national bulletin, dated 9 October 2026, counts 226 active barangays across 24 provinces. The count bottomed at 6 barangays in 4 provinces on 22 May 2026, then rose with every bulletin to a peak of 293 barangays in 31 provinces on 24 September. The Visayas flared badly from late June: San Enrique in Negros Occidental confirmed 23 June (1,902 pig 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 pigs and pork on 7 July under EO 39 and has extended the ban since. In September ASF was confirmed in Cebu province itself, in Ginatilan, with hotspots reported in Cebu City. Camarines Sur (August) and Lal-lo, Cagayan (October) are newer cases in Luzon. The one piece of good news: the AVAC ASF live vaccine was cleared for commercial sale, for fatteners only, on 2 September 2026.
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 pigs cannot get in, and strand supply and crater prices where pigs cannot get out. Check your province's status with the LGU or BAI before you plan a sale.
Liveweight vs What Hits Your Pocket
Every price 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 ₱150/kg liveweight is not a ₱150/kg meat pig.
The gap between what you get and what the shopper pays is enormous, and it has widened. PSA's national retail average for September 2026 was kasim ₱321.34/kg and liempo ₱338.23; BAI's NCR weekly read for the week of 14 September had kasim at ₱344 and liempo at ₱372. Retail fell about 3% from July to September while farmgate, on the DA's figure, fell about 13% from June. You sold the animal at ₱150. 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?
No. Not at the national average, and not by a small margin.
Cost of production is ₱180–₱190/kg. On a 100 kg pig that is ₱18,000–₱19,000 to raise. Sold at the DA's August figure of ₱150/kg, it brings in ₱15,000: a loss of ₱3,000–₱4,000 per head, before you have paid yourself for four months of feeding or hauling. Even at PSA's last official quarter, ₱172.44, the same pig brings ₱17,244 and still loses ₱756–₱1,756. Producer groups put losses at up to ₱50/kg in the worst-hit areas.
That is not automatically a reason to quit, but it is a reason to stop pricing off the national average and to think hard before restocking a full pen. What actually separates the raisers who are losing less, or still making something: 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. In June, PSA had the Cordillera at ₱224.10 and Central Visayas at ₱208.73, against SOCCSKSARGEN at ₱141.98. Same pig, ₱82/kg apart, ₱7,800 on a 95 kg animal. Those June figures are the newest regional ones PSA has; they have almost certainly fallen since.
- When you sell. Less than you would think. On PSA's backyard series, 2014-2025, the median month swings from 2.6% under its year's average (January) to 3.3% over (June), about ₱10/kg trough to peak, and the high is May-June. December only beats November, by about ₱3/kg. No one, including the DA, has forecast a Christmas 2026 lift, and Q4 2025 fell.
- Not losing pigs. With the price below cost, every dead pig is a full cost with no sale against it.
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.
Free Tool
Break-Even Price Calculator
Enter your feed cost and weaner price to see the exact liveweight price you need to break even at today's market.
Timing matters a little. Nationally, May and June are the usual high, January the usual low, and December edges November by a few pesos; March and April sit at about the year's average. The bigger Christmas money is in lechon and whole-pig buyers, who pay over the biyahero rate in December. The best month to sell a pig has the month-by-month numbers.
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Para sa mga mag-uuma
Pila ang presyo sa baboy karon (Oktubre 2026)?
- Sumala sa DA, ang buhi nga baboy sa tibuok nasud mga ₱150 kada kilo niadtong Agosto 2026. Sa industry data: Luzon ₱153.72, Visayas ug Mindanao ₱131.66
- Opisyal nga PSA, ang pinakabag-o pa: ₱174.00 (Abril), ₱171.56 (Mayo), ₱171.76 (Hunyo). Q2 average ₱172.44. Wala pa gi-publish ang Hulyo hangtod Septyembre (sunod nga update sa PSA: 6 Nobyembre 2026)
- Ang ₱210 nga floor, target lang kini sa industriya nga gisuportahan sa DA, dili mapugos. Wala pa kini maabot sa nasudnon nga aberids sukad kini gitakda. Pipila ka rehiyon ang nakaabot sa pipila ka bulan: Cordillera (5), BARMM (2), Central Visayas (2), NCR (Enero 2026, ₱250). Ayaw pagsalig niini
- Ang gasto sa pagpadako ₱180 hangtod ₱190 kada kilo. Sa ₱150, malugi ka og ₱30 hangtod ₱40 kada kilo
- Dili tinuod nga ang Luzon kanunay pinakataas. Sa Hunyo 2026 (pinakabag-ong rehiyonal sa PSA), ang Cordillera (₱224.10) ug Central Visayas (₱208.73) ang pinakataas. Ang Central Luzon ₱181.05 lang
Unsaon pag-check sa eksaktong presyo sa inyong lugar:
Tawagi ang biyahero o trader, pangutana sa Facebook group sa inyong probinsya, o pangutana sa tindero sa merkado. Ayaw pagsalig sa usa lang ka quote. Pangita og duha aron dili ka ma-lowball.
Sa datos sa PSA (2014-2025), ang Mayo ug Hunyo ang kasagaran pinakataas nga presyo, ug ang Enero ang pinakaubos. Ang Disyembre mas taas lang og mga ₱3/kg sa Nobyembre; ang dugang nga kwarta sa Pasko anaa sa lechonero ug pamilya nga buyer. Walay forecast nga mosaka ang presyo karong Pasko 2026.
Bag-o: naa na ang ASF sa probinsya sa Cebu (Ginatilan, Septyembre 2026). Ang pinakabag-ong national bulletin sa BAI, petsa 9 Oktubre 2026, nag-ihap og 226 ka aktibong barangay sa 24 ka probinsya. Ang pinakaubos 6 ka barangay sa 4 ka probinsya niadtong 22 Mayo 2026, dayon nisaka hangtod 293 ka barangay sa 31 ka probinsya niadtong 24 Septyembre. Ang AVAC ASF vaccine gitugotan na ibaligya (para sa fattener lang) sukad 2 Septyembre 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is a pig per kilo today in the Philippines?
PSA's latest official figures are June 2026 at ₱171.76/kg and Q2 2026 at ₱172.44; July–September are not yet published. The DA said national liveweight was ₱150/kg in August 2026, and industry data had Luzon at ₱153.72 and Visayas+Mindanao at ₱131.66. Against a ₱180–₱190/kg cost of production, that is a loss on every pig. 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, agreed on 4 November 2025 by the DA with SINAG, NFHFI and PROPORK. It is an industry target the DA backs, and the DA cannot legally enforce it. The national average has never met it since it was set. A few regions have in some months: the Cordillera five, BARMM and Central Visayas two each, Metro Manila once (₱250, January 2026). 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, the newest regional month PSA has published, 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 was SINAG's trade average in May 2026. It is history now.)
At a ₱180–₱190/kg cost of production, ₱185 is roughly break-even, and in October 2026 it would be a very good offer: the DA's August national figure was ₱150. If someone offers you ₱185 today, take the quote seriously and get a second one. Beating break-even 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
- The Manila Times (28 Sep 2026): DA, national liveweight ₱150/kg in August 2026 vs ₱215 in June 2025; DA tariff proposal 25%/35% (2027), 30%/40% (2028)
- BusinessMirror (8 Sep 2026): industry data Luzon ₱162.16 (Jul), ₱153.72 (Aug); Visayas+Mindanao ₱131.98 (Jul), ₱131.66 (Aug); SINAG blames imports
- Daily Tribune (7 Sep 2026): DA Sec. Tiu Laurel on ASF-fear early selling
- Philstar (21 Sep 2026): ₱120–₱160/kg in some areas; DA cannot legally enforce a floor
- Daily Tribune (2 Oct 2026) and BusinessMirror (9 Oct 2026): cost of production ₱180–₱190/kg
- Philstar (24 Sep 2026): January–August 2026 pork imports 602,655 MT, +5%
- DA (2 Sep 2026): AVAC ASF live vaccine cleared for commercial sale
- SINAG industry average, May 2026: ₱180–₱190/kg farmgate (history); eFeedLink trade quotes, May 2026: ₱183–₱193/kg (history)
- 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
- PSA national retail, September 2026: kasim ₱321.34, liempo ₱338.23; BAI NCR weekly, week of 14 September 2026: kasim ₱344, liempo ₱372
- NatFed: trader/biyahero margin ~₱120/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 bulletins: 226 active barangays in 24 provinces, 9 October 2026 (Id 805); low of 6 in 4 provinces, 22 May 2026 (Id 706); peak of 293 in 31 provinces, 24 September 2026 (Id 798); Visayas outbreaks June–July 2026 per LGU and DA regional advisories; Cebu province (Ginatilan) confirmed September 2026 per Daily Tribune
- PIDS: feed is ~57% of pig operating cost
Liveweight figures are planning figures verified 16 October 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.
