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 I read it. Where no source exists, I 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 the DA put Aug 2026 at ₱150 — not a PSA figure, and PSA has not yet published the months since June. It costs ₱180–190 to produce that kilo. The herd is at 8.93M heads, up through Q2 and still below where it was a year ago, and BAI counts 226 active ASF barangays across 24 provinces.
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 17 Oct 2026.
- Headline farmgate price (PSA quarter) latest 30 Jun 2026 · 109 days old, inside its 184-day budget · PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026
- Pig farmgate price, all farms (PSA) latest 30 Jun 2026 · later months not yet published; PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026 (gap G-11)
- Pig farmgate price by province, all farms (PSA) latest 30 Jun 2026 · later months not yet published; PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026 (gap G-11)
- National swine inventory latest 1 Jul 2026 · 108 days old, inside its 732-day budget · PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026
- Pork liempo retail price (PSA) latest 30 Sept 2026 · 17 days old, inside its 90-day budget · PSA declares its next update for 4 Nov 2026
- Pigs slaughtered in slaughterhouses (PSA) latest 30 Jun 2026 · 109 days old, inside its 184-day budget · PSA declares its next update for 13 Nov 2026
- ASF active barangays latest 9 Oct 2026 · 8 days old, inside its 62-day budget
- Premium grower/finisher feed price latest 17 Oct 2026 · 0 days old, inside its 184-day budget
- DA farmgate figure (not PSA) Aug 2026, ₱150 · DA, via The Manila Times, 28 Sep 2026 · attributed, never charted as a PSA month
2 of these 8 series are waiting on a release the publisher has dated, which is a delay and not a stop. The gaps page records what is missing and what was checked. 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. Ages are counted to this release, 17 Oct 2026.
Nationally the ₱210 target has not been paid since it was set. In the Cordillera it has, 3 months running.
An industry-agreed, DA-backed ₱210/kg farmgate target was set on 4 Nov 2025 — a target, not an enforceable floor. PSA has published 8 national months since and the best of them reached ₱187.06, so the national average has not reached it since it was set (it ran above ₱210 from February to June 2025, before there was a target). The regional series is a different story, and this site got it wrong for months: the Cordillera is at ₱224.10. At roughly ₱180–190/kg to produce, the average farm is selling its pigs below cost, and the DA's ₱150 for Aug 2026 says the gap widened. In October SINAG and NatFed said farmgate had fallen to ₱90 to ₱120 per kilogram in some areas (9 Oct 2026), with losses of ₱5,000–₱9,000 a pig — their figure, for some areas, not a national price. Where you farm decides how far any of this applies to you.
Liveweight farmgate · Sept 2024 → Aug 2026
The green line is PSA's official quarterly farmgate, and it stops at Q2 2026, the last quarter PSA has published. The markers are not PSA: 2 trade and industry reads, each with the range its publisher gave, and the DA's ₱150 for Aug 2026. None of them is joined to the line. The ₱210/kg target — industry-agreed, DA-backed, not enforceable — has not been reached by the national average since it was set, though four regions have cleared it, which the regional panel below names.
- PSA official quarter
- Trade / industry read; bar = its published range
- DA figure (press-reported, not PSA)
Source: PSA OpenSTAT farmgate prices — each green point is a PSA quarter (published, or the mean of PSA's three official months), and the last is Q2 2026. PSA's July to September 2026 months are not yet published; PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026. The amber markers are eFeedLink's ₱183–193 quote for the week ended 1 May 2026 and SINAG's ₱180–190 seven-month average to May 2026, both history now. The violet dot is the DA's ₱150 for Aug 2026 (DA, via The Manila Times, 28 Sep 2026). Cost of production ₱180–190/kg is the producer groups' figure (Daily Tribune, 2 Oct 2026; BusinessMirror, 9 Oct 2026).
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. Why the low end is so low is argued over: the DA blames an ASF-fear sell-off (Secretary Tiu Laurel, Daily Tribune, 7 Sep 2026), SINAG blames imports. 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; above the ₱210 target.
Second highest.
Sixth of 17 — mid-pack, not the anchor everyone quotes.
Steepest fall since March 2026, down ₱31.56/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 18 months PSA has published 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 target 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 ₱210/kg target — industry-agreed, DA-backed, not enforceable — had never been reached "in any month, in any region". The national half is right: the national average has not reached it since it was set. The regional half was wrong, and this site's 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 months after it, through September 2026, are not yet published; PSA declares its next update for 6 Nov 2026, and the archive holds those months as empty rows until it lands. The full series is published here, and the geography page breaks it down by province.
Five decisions in Manila that set your 2026 price.
A pork tariff petition now before the Tariff Commission, a nearly quadrupled import quota, a farmgate target nobody can enforce, a retail ceiling never issued, and a corn tariff cut still pending. Two of the five already work against the farmgate; the other three are still open.
DA petition to raise pork tariffs
WatchThe DA asked the Tariff Commission to raise pork import duties from today’s 15% in-quota / 25% out-quota (EO 62) to 25% / 35% in 2027 and 30% / 40% from 2028. The Commission held its public hearing on 12 Oct 2026; no ruling has been reported. The DA says the change would raise more than ₱10B a year for the Animal Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, and that it plans quantitative restrictions on belly, pork cuts and whole pork “if given legal cover”. A hearing is not a decision.
Dated 12 Oct 2026 · checked 17 Oct 2026 · BusinessMirror, 12 Oct, Philstar, 13 Oct, BusinessMirror, 14 Oct
EO 116 — pork import quota nearly quadrupled
Works against youRaised the pork Minimum Access Volume for MAV Year 2026 from 54,210 MT to 204,210 MT (3.77×). Of the extra 150,000 MT, 120,000 MT goes to Food Terminal Inc. / KADIWA and 30,000 MT to processors. MAV is a tariff quota, not an import cap: 2025 imports were 851,760 MT, and Jan–Aug 2026 imports were 602,655 MT, up 5% (Philstar, 24 Sep 2026, BAI data). The real effect is a 10-point duty saving (15% in-quota vs 25% out-quota) on a much larger tranche.
Dated 19 May 2026 · checked 17 Oct 2026 · EO 116 (Lawphil), Philstar, 24 Sep
₱380/kg liempo retail ceiling
WatchDA signalled intent to cap liempo at ₱380/kg. Still not issued as of 17 Oct 2026, and now moot: BAI’s weekly liempo was ₱372 (14 Sep 2026) and PSA’s national liempo ₱338.23 (Sep 2026), both under the existing ₱370 MSRP (5 Dec 2025; ₱330 kasim and pigue).
Dated 21 May 2026 · checked 17 Oct 2026 · BAI weekly prices, PSA retail (0042M4ARN09)
₱210/kg farmgate target — not enforceable, not achieved nationally
Works against youAn industry-agreed, DA-backed ₱210/kg target, agreed with SINAG, NatFed and PROPORK. It is not an enforceable floor: the DA has no legal power to set a mandatory farmgate price (Philstar, 21 Sep 2026), and the industry re-proposed it in Sep 2026. The national PSA average has not reached it in any month since it was set (Nov ₱177.78 · Dec ₱187.06 · Jan ₱172.56 · Feb ₱176.31 · Mar ₱179.23 · Apr ₱174.00 · May ₱171.56 · Jun ₱171.76); four regions have, in ten region-months. The DA put August 2026 at ₱150.
Dated 4 Nov 2025 · checked 17 Oct 2026
Corn tariff — cut still pending
WatchIn-quota 5%, out-quota 15% under EO 62. The Foundation for Economic Freedom’s petition to cut the out-quota rate to 5%, announced 22 April 2026, is still pending at the Tariff Commission: a public consultation was reported on 5 Aug 2026 and no ruling has followed. Corn is 50–60% of feed formulation, so this is the lever that would move feed cost.
Dated 22 Apr 2026 · checked 17 Oct 2026 · FEF statement, Manila Bulletin, 5 Aug
226 active barangays. In May it was 6.
BAI's latest national count, as of 9 Oct 2026: 226 active barangays across 24 provinces. The 2026 low was 6 on 22 May; the count then climbed through the Visayas outbreaks of late June and on into Luzon and Mindanao, peaking at 293 across 31 provinces on 24 Sep. That is well above the 98 of end-2025. The count is now concentrated in northern Luzon: Cagayan Valley alone holds 93 of the 226 (Isabela 74). This dashboard said for months that BAI had stopped counting. It had not.
Active ASF barangays · BAI's national count, 9 Oct 2026
BAI's fortnightly ASF bulletins, every one this archive holds: 38 dated readings, the newest as of 9 Oct 2026 (8 days before 17 Oct 2026, the last time anyone here opened the sources). The count bottomed at 6 on 22 May 2026 and peaked at 293 on 24 Sept 2026.
This dashboard said for months that BAI had stopped counting. It had not. The bulletins were on BAI's Reports page all along; I was looking at a dead address. I found them on 16 October 2026 because FAO's Asia-Pacific update cited them — FAO's Philippine figures are BAI's, relayed. The record of the mistake is under G-3 on the gaps page.
Source: BAI ASF Status Updates bulletins, each reading citing its own PDF. Active means barangays with confirmed active cases. 15 rows of this series are retracted and kept, each with its reason: 11 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, and 4 since 2026-10-16 — relayed or mislabelled rows superseded by BAI's own bulletins.
How the 2026 resurgence started · what was reported
The detections that reached print, from the late-June Visayas outbreaks to Cebu in September, and the provincial orders that answered them: 6 detections in all, each dated to its laboratory confirmation where the report gives one. The national count has since moved north. On BAI's 9 Oct 2026 bulletin Cagayan Valley (Region II) holds 93 of the 226 active barangays: Isabela 74, Cagayan 13, Quirino 6. Every province, against the 24 September peak: read the breakdown.
Source: each row links the report it comes from (The Manila Times, GMA, Daily Guardian, DigiCast Negros, Daily Tribune, SunStar); 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 — two outbreaks in one province may appear here as one row, or none. The tally is BAI's count, above. Do not add these up.
DA/BAI zoning · colour zones
The colour zones classify whole areas, and the zone you are in decides whether you can move or sell pigs at all. The 1-7-10 km radii are something else: the response protocol drawn around each confirmed case.
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 banned pigs and pork from Negros Island on 7 July (EO 39, 45 days), extended by EO 44 on 20 Aug.
AVAC vaccine · what can actually be sourced
AVAC ASF LIVE was cleared for commercial sale, for fatteners only, on 2 Sept 2026 (DA). 3 dated milestones can be cited, and none of them 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 rows above are stated as what they are. The vaccine is on commercial sale for fatteners only; ask your provincial veterinarian before planning around it, and keep biosecurity as the plan either way.
The herd grew last quarter. It is still smaller than last year.
ASF took national stock from 12.7M heads at the last count before it (1 July 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 · 1 July count, 2018 → 2026
ASF took the herd from 12.7M heads at the last count before ASF (1 July 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, the 1 July count each year, so every bar is the same reference morning and comparable with the next; read from the quarterly series PSA has published since 2010. The 2026 bar is 2.59% above the 1 April count, the largest April-to-July build in that series, so it is not the seasonal wobble it looks like. Q2 output rose 5.58% year on year alongside it. The commercial segment is down 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 ran ₱34.90–38.20/kg on 12 Jul 2026 (mean ₱36.69); re-checked 17 Oct 2026, Suregrow was unchanged and VIEPro no longer listed. Millers added ₱1–2/kg through 2026 and none has announced a rollback. Corn is half the formulation, and the petition to cut its tariff is still pending at the Tariff Commission.
Premium grower / finisher · ₱35.50/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.
Not a price cut. The fall from ₱36.69 to ₱35.50 is a change of basket: on 17 Oct 2026 Suregrow was unchanged and VIEPro was no longer listed, so the newer mean has two bags where the July one had four.
- Yellow corn, wholesale ₱26.85/kg (+30.7% y/y) · BAI weekly, week of 14 Sept 2026 series
- Soybean meal (US), wholesale ₱32.53/kg (+30.0% y/y) · BAI weekly, week of 14 Sept 2026 series
- World maize $239.6/t (+21.4% y/y) · World Bank Pink Sheet, Sept 2026 series
- World soybean meal $447/t (+24.9% y/y) · World Bank Pink Sheet, Sept 2026 series
- Peso per dollar ₱62.61 (+9.4% y/y) · BSP, Sept 2026 series
Source: Agrilife PH dated listings for Suregrow and VIEPro grower and finisher, read 12 Jul 2026 and re-checked 17 Oct 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. Ingredient and world prices are read from this site's archive (BAI weekly price monitoring, World Bank Pink Sheet, BSP). This site publishes 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 July premium band. This is this site's 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 this site's 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.
Producer groups now put cost of production at ₱180–190/kg. The DA put the August farmgate at ₱150; PSA's last official quarter is ₱172.44. Each card below is worked at both prices, from this site's own cost model rather than a survey of what farms earned. The high-cost end loses money at every scale at either price; only a farm that holds feed, FCR and mortality down lands at the top of its range.
5 heads
Backyard · part-time, about an hour a day
- Capital
- ₱70k–₱100k
- Feed / head
- ₱9,000–12,000
- All-in cost / head
- ₱13,000–₱18,100
Learning the trade; one dead pig is 20% of the batch
20 heads
Family farm · 2–4 hours a day
- Capital
- ₱420k–₱640k
- Feed / head
- ₱8,000–11,000
- All-in cost / head
- ₱12,100–₱17,250
Most family farms; small feed discounts on 20+ bag orders
50 heads
Semi-commercial · full-time plus a helper
- Capital
- ₱1.02M–₱1.53M
- Feed / head
- ₱7,500–10,400
- All-in cost / head
- ₱11,770–₱17,150
Bulk feed at 8–15% off; one outbreak can take the whole batch
How these are computed: revenue per head is a 95 kg finish × the price shown × 96% survival (4% mortality), less the all-in cost per head. The low end is the high-cost operator, the high end the low-cost one. Capital, feed and all-in cost are this site's own model, from the scale-by-scale post, not a survey of what farms earned. The prices are the DA's August 2026 read (via The Manila Times, not a PSA month) and PSA's last official quarter.
Mid-year (May–June) is the usual high. December only beats November.
Twelve years of PSA household farmgate put the typical high in May and June, a few percent over the year's average, and the typical low in January. Christmas lifts December over November by a few pesos a kilo, every year, but December is rarely the year's best month. The swings are small next to your buyer and your cost per kilo.
When farmgate usually runs high · month vs its year
Each month's typical distance from its own year's average, 2014–2025. The usual high is June (+3.3%); the usual low is January (−2.6%). December was the year's highest month in only 3 of 12 years (June most often, 4). What Christmas reliably does is lift December over November: 12 of 12 years, median +1.8%, ₱2.37/kg at each year's own prices.
Source: PSA household farmgate, national, 2014–2025: the median of each month vs its year's mean, computed from this site's archive at build time. The Q4 average was below the Q3 average in 7 of 12 years. The calendar notes (fiestas, Christmas) are context, not price claims: lechon and whole-pig family buyers can pay a premium, but that is a buyer channel, not the national farmgate. A few percent is smaller than most single-year swings, so your buyer and your cost per kilo matter more than the month.
₱20,000 buys two pigs. ₱500,000 buys ten sows.
What each budget really pays for, from this site's capital-tiers post, netted at PSA's last official quarter and at the DA's August read. More capital buys more pigs and a longer wait for first cash, not a margin: at ₱150 the small fattener tiers lose money, and no tier is profitable unless your own cost per kilo beats the price you sell at.
Capital ladder · what each tier buys you
What each budget actually pays for, what it really costs, and what the post nets it at PSA's Q2 2026 ₱172.44 and at the DA's August ₱150. Capital buys you pigs and a pen, not a margin: at ₱150 the small fattener tiers lose money, and every figure here moves with your own cost per kilo.
Source: this site's own model, from the capital-tiers post and cost to raise a pig. Bars are log-scale.
Nine programs you probably qualify for. Most farmers never enrol.
Free insurance, free piglets, seed capital, a zero-interest loan for farmers under 30, OFW loans, a swine loan to check on, and a vaccine now on sale for fatteners. 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 classical swine fever, 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 threats that decide whether your farm makes money. ASF is at the top, and active cases are up: BAI counted 6 active barangays on 22 May 2026 and 226 on 9 Oct. 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 daysCSF (classical swine fever) + PasteurellosisCore vaccines
- 60 daysCSF 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 source, linked below, and the raw observations behind the charts live in a public append-only archive: the data pages carry every row with its URL and the date it was read.
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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