4 guides on industry data for Philippine pig farmers.
Everybody writing about Philippine hog farming says the backyard raiser is finished. PSA's quarterly inventory says the smallhold share of the national herd is at a series high of 79.3%, and that the sector actually shrinking is the commercial one, down 62% from its 2018 peak. This is the series break that trips people up, measured rather than assumed.
Aug 23, 2026
Every hog raiser in this country has been told that imports are why the price is bad. Put the published import series beside the published farmgate series and they rise together, year after year, for sixteen years. That is not what a price-killer looks like. Here is what imports actually do, and what actually happened in 2026.
Aug 22, 2026
Everybody tells hog raisers to watch world grain prices. Three and a half years of weekly BAI ingredient prices say that advice is half wrong. Soybean meal tracks the world price almost perfectly and within the same month. Local yellow corn ignores it completely. Here is the arithmetic, and what to buy when.
Aug 20, 2026
A kilo of liempo cost ₱380 at the BAI-monitored stall in early July 2026. The raiser who grew that pig was paid ₱171.76 a kilo liveweight. Everybody has a theory about where the difference goes. This one is built from four price series published every week, and the answer is not the one people shout.
Aug 19, 2026
