The documented absences
What we cannot tell you
10 things this archive cannot tell you, and the reason for each. Some are numbers other pages publish anyway. The rest are columns that a source printed for years and then stopped, which is a quieter kind of missing and easier to chart straight through. 11 series in the archive point at one of these records for the reason their newest figure is as old as it is.
This page exists because the previous answer to a gap here was to fill it with something plausible. A ₱218/kg farmgate price no agency ever published. An ASF curve drawn between two real endpoints. A ₱39/kg "blended" feed price higher than any feed it claimed to average. All three were retracted in July 2026 and all three are still in the archive, marked, because deleting them would delete the evidence. A documented gap beats an undocumented figure, and this is where that position is kept honest.
01 · In numbers
How much of this archive is a documented absence
Counted from the records and from the registry that cites them, during the build. A record that stops silencing a series drops out of the second figure on its own.
Open records
10
Each with the search behind it written down.
Series they account for
11
Series whose newest figure is as old as it is because of one of these.
Due a recheck
0
Past the date the record itself set, measured against 2026-08-22.
Closed
1
Filled, dated, and kept rather than deleted.
02 · Open
Every record, in full
Each one states what is missing, what exists in its place and why that is not the same thing, why it matters, where we looked, and what this site publishes instead.
G-1
Rechecked by 2027-02-10What a backyard pig actually converts feed at
What is missing
Any published Philippine average for backyard FCR, mortality, or days to market weight under village conditions.
What there is instead
Controlled-house figures. Breeder manuals and PCAARRD/UPLB station trials publish FCR around 2.2–2.7 and mortality around 2–3%, measured in housing almost nobody reading this owns.
Why it matters
It is the assumption under every economics table on this site. The difference between a 2.5 and a 3.5 FCR on a 95 kg pig is roughly 95 kg of feed — about ₱3,500 at the premium tier, which is the difference between a thin margin and a loss. We publish 3.0–3.5 and 5–8% as the backyard reality and say plainly that those are a range, not a citation.
Where we looked
PSA, DA, PCAARRD, UPLB and CLSU. None of them survey backyard grow-out performance; the breeder manuals describe controlled housing and say so.
What we do instead
Publish both figures, label the controlled-house one as such, and give a range rather than a point. The route to closing it is a reader survey, which would be original data and the most citable thing this site could own.
Last checked 2026-08-14 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-2
Rechecked by 2027-02-10What a sack of feed costs, nationally
What is missing
A national, dated, repeatable price for finished commercial hog feed — grower/finisher, ₱ per 50 kg bag.
What there is instead
One row. ₱36.69/kg on 12 July 2026, worked out from four dated bag listings on a single online retailer. That is real, cited and reproducible, and it is also one retailer on one day.
Why it matters
Feed is about 57% of hog operating cost (PIDS). A trend chart drawn through one point is not a trend — and the ₱39/kg "blended" figure this site retracted in July 2026 is what filling this gap by estimation looked like last time.
Where we looked
BAI's weekly report carries feed INGREDIENT prices — corn, soya, rice bran — which are inputs to feed rather than the sack a raiser buys. PSA OpenSTAT 2M/NFG has farmgate and retail commodities and no feed at all. B-MEG, Thunderbird and Vitarich publish no price list.
What we do instead
Publish the single-retailer figure with its derivation, name the retailer and the tier on the page, and never draw a line through it.
What it accounts for
Last checked 2026-08-14 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-3
Rechecked by 2026-09-14How much African swine fever there is right now
What is missing
Any national ASF active-barangay count after 8 May 2026.
What there is instead
The 8 May 2026 reading of 8 active barangays across 7 provinces, and nothing since — through a confirmed multi-province Visayas resurgence from late June 2026. Individual outbreaks are still reported; the national count is not.
Why it matters
ASF is the reason pork prices move in this country, and a three-point series whose newest point predates the resurgence cannot honestly be charted as current. This archive already caught the failure this invites: a row dated 20 May 2026 that was the 8 May reading re-dated to make a dashboard look current. It was retracted on 12 July 2026 and it is still in the file, as evidence.
Where we looked
The old bai.gov.ph/asf path serves no data and is on this archive's known-dead list. Counts used to reach the public through DA press releases, PNA and pig333, and none of them has carried one since. A sweep of this site's own pages on 15 August 2026 turned up something the earlier check missed: FAO publishes a national Philippine count too, and our own ASF vaccine post has been citing it — 21 barangays in 17 cities and municipalities across 11 provinces, active as of 10 July 2026, from FAO's Asia-Pacific update of 16 July.
What we do instead
Publish the 8 May 2026 reading WITH its date every single time, say plainly that it predates the resurgence, and never interpolate or re-date it. The individual outbreaks are recorded separately, because four detections somebody wrote about are not a national tally. The FAO figure is deliberately not in this archive yet: nobody here has read it off FAO's own page, and taking it from our own blog post would make us the source of our own fact. It also cannot be appended to the BAI series — a count compiled by FAO is a different population, and stacking the two would invent a trend out of two definitions. If it is taken, it goes in a series of its own.
What it accounts for
- ASF active barangays
- asf-events — an event log, with no series page of its own
Last checked 2026-08-15 · worth asking again after 30 days
G-4
Rechecked by 2027-02-11BAI stopped printing its own farmgate prices, one column at a time
What is missing
Any BAI weekly farmgate backyard figure after 22 July 2024, or commercial figure after 25 August 2025.
What there is instead
The table itself, still published every week, with those two columns reading N/A and the other five carrying figures. Reading all 109 reports showed BAI published both columns for years and then stopped — backyard first, commercial thirteen months later.
Why it matters
It was the only Philippine hog farmgate series published more often than monthly, and a second agency measuring what PSA measures. What is left is 117 readings across 2023–2025 that nobody else has assembled, and 99 dated blanks that say exactly when it stopped.
Where we looked
All 109 reports in BAI's category 19 index, parsed on 15 August 2026. 108 of them read cleanly; one is refused with its reason recorded by report id.
What we do instead
Keep both series with their readings AND their dated blanks, each row carrying the report id that printed it, so the date the source went quiet is itself citable. Use PSA monthly farmgate as the current figure.
What it accounts for
Last checked 2026-08-15 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-5
Rechecked by 2026-11-13The ASF vaccine numbers everyone quotes, including us
What is missing
Any source for the AVAC vaccine figures this site has stated as fact — 400,000 of 500,000 allocated doses released as of 8 May 2026, six named Luzon provinces, about 90% efficacy.
What there is instead
Two dated milestones we can actually prove: the DA/FDA Certificate of Product Registration of 31 July 2024, under monitored release, and a 340,000-dose shipment recorded on 8 September 2025. Neither is the same claim — doses shipped are not doses given, and an authorisation is not a rollout.
Why it matters
These are the most specific things this site says about ASF recovery, and somebody with a sick herd may act on them. They also failed the exact test this archive exists to apply: a retrieval on 15 August 2026 found the claim on baboyph.com and nowhere else. A figure that can only be sourced to us is one step from being a figure the internet cites back to us as fact.
Where we looked
DA, PNA, BusinessMirror, pig333, SunStar and VietnamPlus, on 15 August 2026. The only pages carrying the claim as stated were our own.
What we do instead
Publish the two citable milestones and state the rollout figures as unsourced, or drop them.
Last checked 2026-08-15 · worth asking again after 90 days
G-6
Rechecked by 2027-02-16BAI stopped printing its Argentine soybean meal price
What is missing
Any BAI wholesale price for Argentine soybean meal after 20 October 2025. Not the table — that is still published every week, and twelve of its fifteen columns still carry figures.
What there is instead
A column that ran unbroken for 75 published weeks and then stopped between one report and the next. No figure appears after the first N/A, and there is not a single blank week before the cut, which is the cleanest shape a stopped column can have.
Why it matters
Soybean meal is the protein benchmark a Philippine grower ration is costed against, and BAI printed two origins so the spread between them was readable. Only the US origin still carries a figure. The origin spread said whether a formulator's protein cost was a world-price move or a sourcing decision, and for any week after 20 October 2025 it can no longer be computed.
Where we looked
BAI's category 19 index returned 109 active reports, and all 109 were parsed on 20 August 2026. The Argentine column held 75 figures, ranging ₱25.25 to ₱38.00, the last of them on 20 October 2025 in report 526.
What we do instead
Keep the series with its readings AND its dated blanks, each row carrying the report id that printed it, so the date the column went quiet is itself citable. Use the US-origin series as the current soybean meal figure, and say which origin it is.
What it accounts for
Last checked 2026-08-20 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-7
Rechecked by 2027-02-16BAI stopped printing its feedwheat price for other origins
What is missing
Any BAI wholesale feedwheat figure for other origins after 12 August 2024. The main feedwheat column in the same table is unaffected and still prints weekly.
What there is instead
A column that has now been blank for longer than it was ever filled. It carried 50 readings between ₱18.50 and ₱24.50, and the dated nulls since outnumber them.
Why it matters
It is the first of the three feed-ingredient columns to go quiet and the longest dead, so it is the one that shows what the others become. There is an adjacency worth naming and not over-reading: the last report to print this figure is also the first to print N/A in the hog table's backyard farmgate column. Those are two different tables of the same document that changed state one report apart, not in the same week. Nothing in the reports says why either stopped, and this entry does not guess.
Where we looked
All 109 reports parsed on 20 August 2026. The column held 50 figures, the last on 12 August 2024 in report 259, with no figure after the first N/A and no blank week before the cut.
What we do instead
Keep the series with its readings and its dated blanks. Use the main feedwheat series, which still prints weekly, for a current feed-grade wheat price.
What it accounts for
Last checked 2026-08-20 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-8
Rechecked by 2027-02-16BAI stopped printing its local fishmeal price, after contradicting itself about it
What is missing
Any BAI wholesale local fishmeal figure after 18 May 2026, plus thirteen earlier weeks where BAI printed two different prices for the same week in the same document.
What there is instead
Eighty-eight readings between ₱55.00 and ₱94.00, and thirteen dated blanks that are not missing data at all. BAI prints each ingredient's this-week price three times, once under each comparison column. On thirteen weeks between 28 April 2025 and 15 December 2025 the three cells disagreed for this one ingredient, always with the same shape: the two nearer comparisons agree with each other and the year-ago column prints something else.
Why it matters
This is the only series in the archive whose source contradicts itself, and it is the cleanest test of a rule this site keeps everywhere else. Two of three cells agreeing is a majority, not a measurement. Publishing the majority would put a price on this site that BAI never printed as that week's — the same act as averaging two disagreeing sources, done inside one document instead of across two. So none of the thirteen is published, and each row's note names every figure BAI printed and the column that carried it.
Where we looked
All 109 reports parsed on 20 August 2026. The column held 88 figures, the last on 18 May 2026 in report 722. The thirteen contradictory weeks are the only blanks before the cut.
What we do instead
Keep the series with its readings and its dated blanks, publish none of the thirteen contradictory weeks, and name both figures in each row's note so a reader can check the source rather than trust a vote.
What it accounts for
Last checked 2026-08-20 · worth asking again after 180 days
G-9
Rechecked by 2027-08-21PSA retired the backyard and commercial swine inventory split after 2020
What is missing
Nothing PSA has stopped publishing. The question changed. The old table splits the herd backyard and commercial; the one that replaced it splits it smallhold, semi-commercial and commercial, and PSA moved the boundary when it changed the scheme.
What there is instead
Both tables, in full, as separate series that nothing joins. They overlap completely in time — the newer one reaches back to 2010, seven years before the older one ends — so this is not a coverage gap. The old table's last figure is 12,795,721 head at 1 January 2020, still labelled preliminary six years on. PSA declared a next-update date of 31 March 2021 and has missed it by five years.
Why it matters
A source that changes the question is harder to notice than one that breaks, and joining the two would be the easiest fabrication on this page: the numbers are adjacent, the units match, and the answer would be wrong. It also carries an id for a mechanical reason — a discontinued table has no cadence left, so without one the staleness clock would fire on three series every month for the rest of this archive's life over a table behaving exactly as expected.
Where we looked
Both tables read in full on 21 August 2026 and landed as separate series. The classification boundary moved between them, which is what makes them two answers rather than one series.
What we do instead
Publish both, never join them, and name the table whenever a figure is tighter than "about 8.8 million". A recheck is not looking for a resumed table, because PSA is not going back to a classification it retired. It is watching the preliminary marker on that last year: a final figure would revise the single most quotable number this archive holds.
What it accounts for
- Swine inventory, all farm types (PSA, 2013-2020 scheme)
- Swine inventory, backyard farms (PSA, 2013-2020 scheme)
- Swine inventory, commercial farms (PSA, 2013-2020 scheme)
Last checked 2026-08-21 · worth asking again after 365 days
G-10
Rechecked by 2027-08-22USDA has no usable count of the Philippine pig herd
What is missing
Any USDA reading of the Philippine swine herd. Six supply-and-use attributes of its swine-meat commodity are in this archive; the herd count beside them is deliberately not.
What there is instead
A series that stops at market year 2007, nineteen years ago, and fails USDA's own arithmetic in nine of its forty-eight years. Each failing year's total distribution equals the following year's total supply, which is what that identity degenerates to when three of its inputs are zeroed. That is USDA's zero meaning "not estimated" rather than zero pigs, at scale.
Why it matters
Nothing on this site depends on it — PSA counts the herd quarterly and the archive holds that count from 2010. What is missing is the years before 2010 from a second publisher: a cross-check on the pre-ASF herd, and the only non-PSA reading of it available. The rule this record exists to hold is narrower and more important than the gap itself. Those zeros must never be read as counts. A herd of zero pigs in the Philippines in 1961 is not a claim any publisher makes, and landing those rows because the file has numbers in them is exactly the failure this archive exists to prevent.
Where we looked
The PSD bulk file, retrieved 22 August 2026. The herd commodity runs 1960 to 2007 for the Philippines, and nine of those years fail the total-supply identity in the shape described above.
What we do instead
Use PSA's quarterly inventory series, which are the count this site publishes. A recheck asks whether USDA has extended the commodity past 2007 and whether the nine zeroed years have been restated. Neither is likely and both are cheap: the fetcher already downloads the file the answer is in.
Last checked 2026-08-22 · worth asking again after 365 days
03 · Closed
Gaps that got filled
A gap that gets filled moves here with the date and the source. It is never deleted — the record that a number was once unavailable is itself worth citing.
C-1 · closed 2026-08-14
PSA monthly farmgate existed only as fifteen hand-typed numbers
The site's official price rested on fifteen monthly values somebody had retrieved by hand once and typed in. Nothing charted them, nothing validated them and nothing refreshed them, so the headline figure went two quarters stale without any check being able to notice. Closed by machine retrieval against PSA OpenSTAT: 417 rows across three populations, every one carrying its source and access date, and 51 of them null where PSA published nothing.
If you have a source for any of these, or you publish one of these numbers yourself, we would genuinely like to hear about it — contact details are on the about page. Everything we do have is at /data.