"The price of pork" is four different numbers
A backyard raiser was paid ₱172.62 a kilo for a live pig in June 2026. A shopper paid ₱378.00 a kilo for liempo in the week of July 13, 2026. Both figures are official, neither is wrong, and almost every page you will read quotes one of them without saying which.
In short
- Retail liempo is 2.2× backyard farmgate. A gap of about ₱ 205 a kilo between what the raiser gets and what the shopper pays.
- Wholesale sabit ulo sits at ₱260.00 , between the two. It is a different market level, not a markup.
- Kasim is ₱344.00 against liempo's ₱378.00. The cut most households buy is the cheaper one, and the cut every headline quotes is the dearer one.
- Frozen liempo is ₱78 a kilo below fresh. That gap is the import argument in one number.
- Every figure here has a date on it. Farmgate is monthly and roughly six weeks behind; BAI's weekly figures arrive three to eight weeks after the week they describe. A pork price with no date is not a price.
The four levels
| Level | ₱/kg | Period | Who pays it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmgate, backyard | ₱172.62 | June 2026 | What the raiser is paid |
| Wholesale, sabit ulo | ₱260.00 | the week of July 13, 2026 | What a trader pays |
| Retail, kasim | ₱344.00 | the week of July 13, 2026 | What a shopper pays |
| Retail, liempo | ₱378.00 | the week of July 13, 2026 | What a shopper pays |
Farmgate from PSA's monthly survey, read 2026-08-20. Wholesale and retail from BAI's weekly price monitoring, read 2026-08-21. Each row links to the full series with every figure, its source URL and its access date.
Why the gap is the whole argument
₱205 a kilo separates the raiser from the shopper. Some of that gap is obviously real work: slaughter, transport, the cold chain, market stall rent, and the plain fact that a live pig is not a kilo of belly. Dress it out and you lose roughly a third of the liveweight before anybody cuts a liempo off it. Liempo is also the premium cut, and the same carcass yields kasim at ₱344.00 and cheaper parts below that.
But take the position, because somebody should: a gap this size is not explained by dressing percentage alone, and the DA's periodic price caps are an argument about who captures the middle rather than an argument about cost. When farmgate falls and retail does not, which you can watch happen in the two charts below, the middle is where the difference went. Every raiser knows this. Almost no page that quotes a pork price shows both ends of it.
What each level actually is
Farmgate, backyard, ₱172.62/kg
A live pig, per kilo of liveweight, sold off a backyard farm.
Published monthly · June 2026 · the full series
Wholesale, sabit ulo, ₱260.00/kg
Per kilo at wholesale. BAI gives no weight basis beyond "per Kilo", so neither do we. A different market level entirely, not a markup on the row above.
Published weekly · the week of July 13, 2026 · the full series
Retail, kasim, ₱344.00/kg
Shoulder cut, over the counter. The cut most households actually buy.
Published weekly · the week of July 13, 2026 · the full series
Retail, liempo, ₱378.00/kg
Belly. The cut every news story about pork prices leads with.
Published weekly · the week of July 13, 2026 · the full series
Two things that will make you quote the wrong number
Liveweight against dressed weight. The farmgate figure is per kilo of live pig. If a buyer offers you a price "per kilo" without saying which, and you assume liveweight when they mean dressed, you are about to lose roughly a third. That is a bigger error than any price negotiation you will have.
National against regional. The farmgate figure above is a national average and the country does not have one price. In the newest month where every region published, the dearest region and the cheapest were more than ₱75 a kilo apart, which is bigger than most arguments about the national average. Your own province is in the archive .
Sa Bisaya
Upat ka klase ang presyo sa baboy, dili usa. Ang gibayad sa mag-aalima kay ₱172.62 matag kilo nga buhi. Ang gipalit sa tindahan nga liempo kay ₱378.00. Parehas silang tinuod.
Kung may mosulti nga "kini ang presyo sa baboy karon", pangutan-a asa nga presyo ug kanus-a. Kung walay petsa, dili na kana presyo.
Questions people actually ask
How much is pork per kilo in the Philippines right now?
It depends entirely on which price you mean, and most pages do not say. For the week of July 13, 2026, BAI's weekly monitoring put retail liempo at ₱378.00 a kilo and retail kasim at ₱344.00. PSA's June 2026 survey put backyard farmgate, which is what the raiser is paid for a live pig, at ₱172.62 a kilo liveweight. Those are not the same number and neither is wrong.
Why is pork so expensive when farmgate prices are low?
Retail liempo is currently 2.2× the backyard farmgate price, a gap of about ₱205 a kilo. Some of that is real: slaughter, transport, cold chain, market rent, wastage and the fact that a live pig is not a kilo of belly. Liempo is a premium cut and the carcass also yields cheaper ones. But the size of the gap is the substance of every DA price-cap argument, and anybody quoting one end of it without the other is arguing with half the data.
What is sabit ulo?
A wholesale trade term for hog sold per kilo, and one of the columns BAI prints in its weekly livestock price monitoring. The report gives no basis beyond "per Kilo", so calling it a carcass price would be an inference rather than a reading. It sits between farmgate and retail and it is the level traders actually deal at. It is not a markup on farmgate. It is a different market with different participants.
Where do these prices come from?
The farmgate figures are PSA's monthly farmgate survey, retrieved from OpenSTAT. The wholesale and retail figures are read out of BAI's weekly price monitoring PDFs, one dated report at a time, with the report id attached to every row. Every figure on this page carries the date somebody last opened the source, and the whole archive is free to download.
Take the numbers
Every figure on this page is one row of a series that goes back years, and all of it is free to download with the source URL and access date on every row. The archive has farmgate monthly since January 2010, BAI's weekly cuts since January 2023, and the same farmgate survey for every region and province . If you want to work out whether the price you are being offered leaves you anything, the cost-of-gain calculator starts from this same farmgate figure.