5 guides on industry data for Philippine pig farmers.
BAI's bulletin as of 9 October 2026 lists 226 barangays with active ASF in 24 provinces, down from the 24 September peak of 293 in 31. The fall is almost all Mindanao and the Visayas clearing. Luzon barely moved, and the weight shifted from Cagayan Valley into Central Luzon, Ilocos and Bicol. Here is the province table nobody else prints, and the 60-day plan if yours is on it.
Oct 17, 2026
Everybody writing about Philippine pig 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 pig 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 pig 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 ₱372 at the BAI-monitored stall in mid-September 2026. The last official farmgate figure, for June, was ₱171.76 a kilo liveweight, and the DA says the August price was nearer ₱150. 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
