Philippine Pig Farming · Annual Snapshot 2026
The numbers that decide whether
your farm makes money this year.
Prices, ASF status, the national herd, feed cost, profitability by scale, government programs. Every figure on this page carries the source that published it and the date we read it. Where no source exists, we say so on the page instead of filling the gap.
Four numbers. Two of them are bad news.
PSA's last official farmgate is ₱172.44/kg for Q2 2026, and SINAG puts the trade at ₱180–190 since. It costs about ₱180 to produce that kilo. The herd is at 8.93M heads, up through Q2 and still below where it was a year ago, and ASF is back in the Visayas.
How current is this page?
Nothing below is typed. Each line is the newest reading in that series, checked against the publication cadence the registry records for it, so a source that goes quiet says so here without anyone remembering to write it down. The freshest figure on this page is from 12 Jul 2026.
- Headline liveweight farmgate price latest 30 Jun 2026 · 45 days on, inside its 184-day budget
- ASF active barangays latest 8 May 2026 · source stopped publishing (gap G-3)
- National swine inventory latest 2026 · 233 days on, inside its 732-day budget
- Premium grower/finisher feed price latest 12 Jul 2026 · 0 days on, inside its 184-day budget
- Hog farmgate price by province, all farms (PSA) latest 30 Jun 2026 · 51 days on, inside its 90-day budget
1 of these 5 series has a publisher that has stopped, which is not the same as this page being out of date and is not something a refresh can fix. The gaps page names each one, what is missing, and what it would take to close it. Nothing else here is overdue: every remaining series is inside the staleness budget its own publication cadence earns it, which is twice the gap between issues.
Nationally the ₱210 floor has never been paid. In the Cordillera it has, 3 months running.
The DA set a ₱210/kg minimum farmgate price on 4 Nov 2025. PSA has published 8 national months since and the best of them reached ₱187.06, so the floor has never once been met by the national average. The regional series is a different story, and this site got it wrong for months: the Cordillera is at ₱224.10. At roughly ₱180/kg to produce, the average farm is still selling its pigs at cost — but where you farm decides whether that sentence applies to you.
Liveweight farmgate · 2024 → 2026
PSA quarterly averages, plus the two trade reads taken inside the latest quarter. The DA floor of ₱210/kg has not been touched by a single month of the national series since it was set — though four regions have cleared it, which the regional panel below names.
Source: PSA OpenSTAT farmgate prices — the quarterly points are means of the official monthly series, and the last of them is Q2 2026. Two points are trade reads rather than PSA and are labelled as such: eFeedLink's quote for the week ending 1 May 2026, and SINAG via BusinessWorld, 21 May 2026. Both sit inside Q2 2026 and both run above it, which is the gap between what the trade quotes and what the official survey records. Cost of production ₱180/kg is SINAG and NatFed, who reach it separately.
Regional farmgate · June 2026
Luzon is not the anchor. The two dearest markets in the country are Cordillera (CAR) and Central Visayas; Central Luzon sits mid-pack. Where ASF is active, price collapses. The spread between Cordillera (CAR) and SOCCSKSARGEN is ₱82.12/kg for the same animal in the same month, which is a haulage and zoning story rather than a quality one.
Highest in the country; clears the ₱210 DA floor.
Second highest.
Sixth of 17 — mid-pack, not the anchor everyone quotes.
Steepest fall since May 2026, down ₱14.38/kg.
Lowest in the country.
PSA printed no Metro Manila figure this month, which is not the same as never printing one: 11 of the 19 months in this archive carry an NCR price, most recently ₱200.00 in May 2026.
Source: PSA OpenSTAT, regional monthly farmgate, June 2026, read through the archive rather than typed — all 18 regions PSA surveyed that month, including the one it published no figure for. One region reached the ₱210 floor that month. Prices move week to week with hauling cost and ASF zoning, so check with your own buyer or the LGU veterinary office before you sell.
Correction, August 2026. This site used to write that the DA's ₱210/kg minimum farmgate price had never been reached "in any month, in any region". The national half is right — no month of the national series has come near it. The regional half was wrong, and our own archive had said so since the regional series was retrieved. Since the floor was set on 4 November 2025, Cordillera (CAR) has cleared it in 5 months (high ₱228.45), BARMM has cleared it in 2 months (high ₱273.68), Central Visayas has cleared it in 2 months (high ₱217.84) and Metro Manila (NCR) has cleared it in 1 month (high ₱250.00). Everywhere else, it has never been paid.
Where the series ends. June 2026 is the newest month PSA has published a regional figure for, and it is the month shown above. The archive also holds July 2026: PSA surveyed and printed nothing, for every region, so those rows are stored as published absences rather than dropped. The full series is published here, and the geography page breaks it down by province.
Four decisions in Manila that set your 2026 price.
A quadrupled import quota, a floor price nobody enforces, a retail ceiling still only proposed, and a corn tariff that did not budge. Three of the four cut against the farmgate.
EO 116 — pork import quota quadrupled
Works against youRaised the pork Minimum Access Volume from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT. MAV is a tariff quota, not an import cap: actual 2025 imports were 851,760 MT, four times the new MAV. The real effect is a 10-point duty saving (25% → 15%) on a much larger tranche.
As of 19 May 2026
₱380/kg liempo retail ceiling
WatchDA has signalled intent to cap liempo at ₱380/kg. Still PROPOSED — not issued as of 21 May 2026. The existing MSRP (5 Dec 2025) is ₱370 liempo, ₱330 kasim and pigue.
As of 21 May 2026
DA minimum farmgate price — not achieved
Works against youThe ₱210/kg floor agreed with SINAG, NatFed and PROPORK has not been reached in any month of PSA data since it was set (Nov ₱177.78 · Dec ₱187.06 · Jan ₱172.56 · Feb ₱176.31 · Mar ₱179.23). No source shows it enforced, amended or repealed.
As of 4 Nov 2025
Corn tariff unchanged
WatchIn-quota 5%, out-quota 15% under EO 62, in force to 2028. FEF petitioned on 22 April 2026 to cut the out-quota rate to 5%; not granted. Corn is 50–65% of feed formulation, so this is the lever that would move feed cost.
As of 22 Apr 2026
8 barangays. The count is two months old.
BAI's last national count was 8 May 2026: 8 active barangays across 7 provinces, down 88% year on year from 98. Every case since then landed after it. Negros Occidental on 23 June, Iloilo on 29 June, Bacolod and Capiz in July. The decline was real, and it happened in the six Luzon provinces that got the vaccine.
Active ASF barangays · the last count is 3 months old
BAI has published no national active-barangay count since 8 May 2026. That is 99 days to 15 Aug 2026, the last time anyone here opened the sources. There are 3 verified readings in the archive and there is no fourth, so what follows is 3 dated numbers rather than a trend line. The newest of them predates the Visayas resurgence entirely.
BAI is not the only body that counts. FAO's Asia-Pacific situation update carried a higher national figure in July 2026 — and it points back up, not down. That figure is not on this dashboard because it is not in the archive, and it is not in the archive because nobody here has read it off FAO's own page: taking it from our own blog post would make us the source of our own fact. It also belongs in a series of its own if it is taken at all, since a count compiled by FAO is not the same population as a count published by BAI, and stacking the two would invent a trend out of two different definitions. The figure, its date and what it would take to archive it are written up under G-3 on the gaps page, and the ASF vaccine post cites it in full.
Source: BAI counts as relayed by pig333 and PNA. Active means barangays with confirmed cases inside the 1 km cull radius. The count fell from 98 on 31 Dec 2025 to 8 on 8 May 2026, a drop BAI put at 88% year on year — and then the series stopped. 11 earlier rows of this series were retracted on 2026-07-12 as unverifiable or invented, including one that re-dated the 8 May reading to 20 May to make this dashboard look current. They are kept in the archive as the record of that.
The Visayas resurgence · what was actually reported
The decline in the national count happened in the six Luzon provinces that got the vaccine. ASF moved through the Visayas, which did not. These are the 4 laboratory-confirmed detections that reached print, and the provincial orders that answered them.
Source: The Manila Times, GMA, Daily Guardian and DigiCast Negros for the detections; the provincial orders for the bans, dated to the day they were signed rather than the day they were reported. This is a floor, not a tally. It counts outbreaks somebody wrote about, in a country where the national count stopped — two outbreaks in one province may appear here as one row, or none. Do not add these up.
DA zoning · 1-7-10 km protocol
The Nov 2025 rules brought in WOAH-aligned regionalization. Each zone carries different movement rules, and the zone you are in decides whether you can sell at all.
Tip: Check your province's current zone with the LGU veterinary office. Zones shift week to week, and a provincial ban can land overnight — Cebu closed to both Negros provinces on 7 July with 45 days' notice to nobody.
AVAC vaccine · what can actually be sourced
The first commercially tested ASF vaccine has never been on open sale. Two dated milestones are all that can be cited, and neither is a rollout figure.
What this panel used to say, and why it stopped. It carried 400,000 of 500,000 doses released, six named Luzon provinces and ~90% efficacy, sourced to “BAI and DA bulletins”. A retrieval on 15 Aug 2026 across DA, PNA, BusinessMirror, pig333, SunStar and VietnamPlus found those figures on no page except this site's own — a citation loop, not a source, recorded as gap G-5. A shipment is not an administration and an authorisation is not a rollout, so the two rows above are stated as what they are. If you farm outside the vaccinated provinces, the vaccine is not part of your 2026 plan; biosecurity is.
The herd grew last quarter. It is still smaller than last year.
ASF took national stock from 12.7M heads in 2019 to 8.93M at the 1 July 2026 count. That is 2.59% above the 1 April count and 0.95% below 1 July 2025. Read both numbers or you will get the direction wrong: the herd is building, and it has not got back to last year, let alone to 2019.
National herd · 2018 → 2026
ASF took the herd from 12.7M heads in 2019 to 8.93M at the Jul 2026 count: up 2.59% on the 1 April count and still 0.95% down year on year. Both halves of that are true at once, and the second one is why this is not a recovery yet.
Source: PSA swine inventory, year-end for every bar except the last. The 2026 bar is the 1 July reference-morning count, a partial year. It is 2.59% above the 1 April count, which is the largest April-to-July build in the quarterly series PSA has published since 2010, so it is not the seasonal wobble it looks like. Q2 output rose 5.58% year on year alongside it. The build is entirely smallhold: the commercial segment lost another 24.01% year on year, and smallholders now hold 79.3% of the national herd.
Feed is 57% of your cost, and it rose again.
Premium grower and finisher run ₱34.90–38.20/kg, about ₱1,830 a bag. Millers added ₱ 1–2/kg through 2026 and none has announced a rollback. Corn is half the formulation, and the tariff cut that would have moved it was not granted.
Premium grower / finisher · ₱36.69/kg
Feed runs about 57% of what it costs you to raise a pig, which is why a peso on the bag matters more than a peso on the farmgate. Millers added ₱1–2/kg through 2026. None of them has announced a rollback.
Source: Agrilife PH dated listings for Suregrow and VIEPro grower and finisher, read 12 Jul 2026. That is one retailer's premium tier, not a national average — your co-op or dealer will differ, and B-MEG or Thunderbird at your local agrivet is the number that actually governs your batch. We publish no budget-tier or self-mix figure because no dated source for one could be found. Weigh your own bags.
What a pig eats, end to end
Weaner to a 90–100 kg finish, at the bag prices above. This is our own calculator's output, not somebody else's survey.
Standard for backyard and most semi-commercial farms
Note: the per-pig range is Baboy PH's own calculator output, not an external figure. Search for it and you will find our own pages quoting it back at you, which proves nothing. Run it against your own FCR before you trust it.
At the market average, there is no profit.
SINAG and NatFed both put cost of production at ₱180/kg. The market is paying about ₱185. The tiers below are Baboy PH's own model, not a survey of what farms earned: they show what each scale can reach when feed cost and mortality are held down. Everything in them depends on beating that ₱180.
Backyard
5–10 pigs · family labor
- Capital
- ₱25k–₱65k
- FCR
- 3.0–3.5
- Mortality
- 5–8%
- Margin
- 8–15%
- Payback
- 6–9 months
Best for: First-time raisers, OFW side income, rural households
Semi-commercial
50–200 pigs · hired labor
- Capital
- ₱350k–₱1.5M
- FCR
- 2.7–3.0
- Mortality
- 4–6%
- Margin
- 12–20%
- Payback
- 12–24 months
Best for: Returning OFWs, established farmers, family corporations
Commercial
500+ pigs · pro management
- Capital
- ₱4.0M–₱20.0M
- FCR
- 2.4–2.7
- Mortality
- 3–4%
- Margin
- 15–25%
- Payback
- 24–48 months
Best for: Established operators, integrators, breeder-finishers
December is the peak. May is the second wave.
Christmas anchors the year — December liveweight runs ~10% above baseline. Holy Week + summer fiesta is the second uplift. February is the trough.
Best month to sell · seasonal price uplift
Months sized by their typical premium over the baseline. December anchors the year for backyard farmers. May fiesta wave is the second peak.
Source: Multi-year farmgate data, fiesta calendar, NEDA pork demand index. Christmas (Dec) premium is the most consistent; April–May tracks summer fiesta season; February is the demand trough.
₱25k or ₱2M — both work, on different timelines.
The Philippine pig business scales smoothly. Each capital tier produces real returns — what changes is how long until first cash and how much skill you need to deploy.
Capital ladder · what each tier buys you
Realistic capital ranges from try-and-learn backyard to full commercial. Every tier is profitable — the difference is timeline and skill required.
Source: Synthesis of 20+ Baboy PH cost articles, DA-SAAD program docs, OFW investor case studies. Bars use log-scale (each tier is ~4× the previous).
Nine programs you probably qualify for. Most farmers never enrol.
Free insurance, free piglets, seed capital, zero-interest loans for swine raisers and for farmers under 30, OFW loans, vaccination access. RSBSA registration at your LGU agriculture office is the gate to all of it, and it costs nothing.
The six pathogens that decide your year.
ASF is the headline, but hog cholera, PRRS, parasites and mycotoxin all quietly eat margin. The standard backyard vaccination schedule covers most of them, and it is cheap next to a wipe-out.
Disease watch · 2026
The six pathogens that decide whether your farm makes money. ASF stays at the top even with active cases down — one outbreak wipes out a whole batch.
Vaccination + dewormer calendar
Standard backyard schedule, weaner-to-market. Set reminders on day-1, day-30, day-60, day-90.
- 1 dayIron injectionPrevent anaemia in piglets
- 7 daysCastration (males)If raising for market
- 21–28 daysWeaning + first dewormerTransition feed
- 30 daysHog cholera + PasteurellosisCore vaccines
- 60 daysHog cholera boosterCement immunity
- 90 daysSecond dewormerMid-grow
- Pre-farrowing (sow)Iron + dewormer 2 wks beforeSow + piglet health
Note: For sow herds add PRRS + parvovirus vaccines. Always cross-check with your provincial veterinary office — schedule varies by ASF zone.
Sources & methodology
Every figure here traces to a dated, fetchable source, and the raw observations behind the charts live in a public append-only archive in our repo.
Correction, 12 July 2026. An audit of this page found that several of its headline numbers were not just stale, they were never sourced: a ₱218/kg farmgate no agency ever published, an ASF barangay curve drawn between two real endpoints, and a ₱39/kg "blended" feed price higher than the feed it claimed to average. Those rows have been retracted and rebuilt from PSA, DA, BAI and trade reporting. The retractions are kept in the archive rather than deleted, with the reason attached to each one. Where a figure has no source, this page now says so instead of carrying a number.
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