Contract Growing vs Independent: The Numbers
The short answer
No Philippine integrator publishes a grower fee, so there is no peso-against-peso answer here and none on anybody else’s page either. Risk ang pinagpipilian, hindi kita. A contract takes two prices off your books, the feed sack coming in and the farmgate going out, and leaves you the mortality, the trabaho and the building with its utang. Only half the independent side can be priced at all: PSA put household broiler farmgate at ₱150.31/kg liveweight in June 2026, while no Philippine source prices a sack of finished feeds. The only dated figure within reach is one you have to make: ipakuwenta mo sa field officer ang isang tapos nang batch, sa harap mo.
Source Manoknomics register of missing data, G-2 Contract growing terms (read on August 12, 2026)
Magkano ang bayad kada kilo sa contract growing? Hindi ko po masasabi, and neither can anybody else writing honestly about this, kasi walang naglalathala nito. No Philippine integrator publishes a fee schedule. No agency collects one. The figures circulating in the forums carry no date and no source, which makes each of them somebody’s memory of a kontrata signed in a year they no longer remember. On this site that hole is logged as gap G-2 in the gaps register, and it stays open until an integrator gives a dated quote on the record.
A peso-against-peso comparison is therefore out of reach, and any page offering you one is guessing. What is in reach is the thing the choice actually turns on. Contract growing is argued as a tanong about kita. Ang totoo, tanong iyan tungkol sa risk. Nobody knows which arrangement earns more, so that is not the question you are answering. You are picking which risks stay in your own bakuran, and which ones move to somebody who owns a feed mill.
The missing fee is itself a finding
Every route to a published grower fee dies in the same place. Bounty Fresh, San Miguel and Vitarich publish marketing pages, hindi mga tuntunin. The trade press quotes fee levels without saying when they were observed. The gaps register records what was checked and when: integrator marketing pages, undated trade-press figures, and forum posts of varying age, last swept on 12 August 2026.
Worth sitting with rather than apologising for. A bayad that is never published is a bayad negotiated isa-isa, per company and per bahay, against your building spec, your layo from the plant, and your batch history. A national average would be the wrong shape of answer even if somebody collected one. Alam ng integrator ang mga numero mo and you do not know theirs, and that asymmetry is the deal itself, not a flaw in the reporting.
May isang bagay kang magagawa dito, at libre. Ask the field officer to compute a real past batch in front of you: birds placed, kilos harvested, sacks charged, deductions applied, cheque issued. A company that will not walk you through one finished settlement is telling you something. Ang kompanyang papayag is handing you the only dated figure that exists for its own terms, and you can walk out with it written down.
So the useful thing an article can do is price the half that is priceable, then hand you the questions to carry into that meeting.
The independent side is the half the archive can price
Independent means you buy the sisiw, you buy the feeds, you carry the gamot, and you sell at farmgate to whoever turns up. Two of those four carry a sourced Philippine figure: the sisiw at the front and the farmgate at the end. The two in the middle are unpublished, and the bigger of them is the sack of feeds.
The sourced half of this comparison describes the ordinary case, not the small one: two chickens in five in this country stand in holdings of 500 birds or fewer, and the five decisions before a first flock is the page that works through what that means.
PSA priced broiler at ₱150.31 per kilo liveweight in June 2026 in its Household table, which is the table describing backyard sellers. Its Commercial establishment table put the same month at ₱118.69 per kilo. Both are liveweight, both are June 2026, and the ₱31.62 between them is not a discrepancy to split down the middle. They are different market levels, and blending them produces a presyo no seller anywhere receives. If you have never seen the two series side by side, the two farmgate prices is the page that walks through which one applies to you.
| Line in an independent batch | What can be sourced | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Day-old chicks | ₱33.50 per head, week of 13 July 2026 | BAI weekly monitoring, farmgate/wholesale. Not the dealer price a backyard keeper pays, which is higher and published nowhere |
| Sack of finished feeds | Nothing. No figure exists | Gap G-15. Your own dealer, this week, written down with the date |
| Kilos of feeds per kilo of manok | 1.50–1.83 FCR, open-sided big bird. What growers said they aim at, not what was weighed | Datuin et al. (2022) Table 5, PJVAS 48(1):57-69 |
| Gamot and vet inputs | Nothing. No published series | Gap G-5, agrivet quotes only |
| What you sell for | ₱150.31/kg liveweight, June 2026 | PSA Household table 0032M4AFN10.px |
| What the palengke charges | ₱213.24/kg dressed, July 2026 | PSA retail. A different level and a different basis. Do not convert |
Ang sako ng feeds is the heavier of the two unpriced lines, and it is also the line that decides the batch. The archive’s record of the hunt is unusually specific about why. BAI’s weekly report prices fifteen feed ingredients in ₱/kg and never a bag. The USDA GAIN grain and feed annual for 2026 charts fertilizer and palay, no mixed feed. A PIDS discussion paper carries one figure for 2018 and nothing since. LGU procurement postings give real peso amounts, but they are budget ceilings on a no-brand tender rather than observed prices. Per dealer ang presyo ng feeds dito, quoted out loud across a counter, so the presyo of your sako is data only you can collect. Gamot sits in the same hole, logged as G-5, with agrivet counter quotes underneath it and no series above them.
You can watch the raw materials move, at least. BAI publishes fifteen feed ingredients in ₱/kg wholesale, at nandoon ang mais at ang soybean meal. They tell you which direction the mill’s input costs are heading. Hindi nila sasabihin sa iyo kung magkano ang singil ng dealer mo sa Sabado, and no amount of arithmetic turns fifteen ingredient prices into the price of a finished sako.
Which is why the feed cost tool and the break-even tool ask you for it instead of assuming one. Kunin mo ang numero sa suki mo, run it, and you have an independent floor in ₱/kg to hold against any bayad you are offered. Without that floor the negotiation has no benchmark, and you end up comparing the integrator’s offer against a feeling.
What a contract buys is the sack price you cannot forecast
Here is the honest argument for contract growing, and it needs no fee figure to make.
Under a contract the integrator supplies the sisiw, the feeds, and usually the vet inputs, then pays you for the weight you produce. The two prices that swing hardest in an independent batch, the sako going in and the farmgate going out, stop being yours. You are no longer exposed to a feed bill nobody can quote you a week ahead. You are no longer exposed to a farmgate market PSA has tracked buwan-buwan since January 2010, one that moves on mais, on imports, on sakit, and on the season.
That market is also mostly a domestic one, which is worth knowing before you decide the price risk is somebody else’s problem. PSA put the chicken meat self-sufficiency ratio at 91.9% for 2025, so the great majority of what Filipinos eat is grown here. Imports move the price at the margin rather than setting it, and the margin is where a season turns.
Against that, look at what does not move. Sa iyo pa rin ang namamatay. Sa iyo ang trabaho, unpaid and usually uncounted. Sa iyo ang gusali, and so is the loan you took to put it up, a single-purpose structure that earns nothing between batches. Sa iyo ang downtime. Kapag na-late ang trak, kumakain pa rin ang manok, and whose account that feed lands on is a clause, not a courtesy.
That is the trade in one line: you sell your exposure to two prices, and you buy a fixed asset plus an obligation. Kung maganda ba ang palit depends entirely on the bayad, which brings us back to the document.
The contract is the only citable source for your own deal
The kontrata is the primary document, it carries a date, and it is the only thing that answers the question for your own deal. Bago ka magbuhos ng semento, basahin mo ito. Sampung bagay ang kunin mo, and I would not sign without written answers to all ten.
| The fee basis, in words and in arithmetic | Per kilo liveweight, per bird placed, or per bird harvested are three different businesses. Ask them to compute one past batch in front of you |
|---|---|
| Who owns the birds while they are in your kulungan | It determines who insures them, who can order a cull, and what happens to your claim if the company folds |
| Who bears mortality, and above what threshold | The 94 to 95% livability quoted everywhere is a target growers in Datuin et al. named, not an outcome anybody weighed. A threshold set above what you actually hit is a penalty with extra steps |
| How FCR bonuses and penalties are computed | Whose scale, whose weighing, whose record of sacks delivered, and is a disputed weight re-weighed or merely recorded |
| Who pays for gamot and vet visits | If medication is charged back, it is a cost you carry with no control over the price |
| The minimum housing spec, and who funds it | The spec will be the company’s, and the loan you take out is sized by it. The only Philippine national standard that states a broiler density at all was written for a different production system |
| Contract length and batches guaranteed per year | An empty house between batches still carries its loan. Batches per year is the number your puhunan is repaid out of |
| The termination clause, both directions | How much notice, on what grounds, and what you are owed for a batch already in progress |
| Delayed pickup | Past the agreed harvest day the birds keep eating and keep converting worse. Name who pays for those days |
| Where a dispute goes | Company adjudication, arbitration, or a court, and who bears the cost of getting there |
That housing row is the one with a published Philippine number under it, and the number is borrowed. PNS/BAFS 262:2018 § 6.3.1 sets a fixed broiler building at 10 birds per m² or 17 kg per m², whichever binds first (BAFS, Department of Agriculture), and that standard covers free range production. Walang pambansang density standard para sa confined broiler housing, so whatever the company writes into your spec is the spec.
Kung pasalita ang sagot to any of those, write it down and ask for it in the document. A fee schedule the company will not put in writing before you build is already the answer to your original question.
Most published Philippine broiler performance is contract-grower data
This is the part almost nobody flags, and it changes how you read every performance figure on the Philippine internet.
The one Philippine field survey in general use is Datuin et al. (2022) in the Philippine Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. It sampled 55 respondents: 48 contract growers and 7 integrators. The figures everybody lifts from it, open-sided housing and big bird, are feed conversion of 1.50 to 1.83, harvest at 30 to 34 days and livability of 94 to 95%. All three sit in Table 5 on page 66, under a heading that calls them targets of growers: what the growers said they were aiming at, not what anybody weighed. That heading also fixes the denominator, because the integrators are surveyed apart and the housing split covers only the 48. Table 6 on the same page, read out in the prose on page 65, records how the aiming went. 33% of the growers said they meet those targets only sometimes or not at all, blaming chick quality, extreme weather, sakit, and inputs arriving late. The lechon manok row is 1.50 to 2.00 with harvest at 28 to 38 days, on the same terms.
Read the sample again. Those are the aims of contract operations, running company sisiw on company feeds under a company technician, in houses built to a company spec. Hindi iyan sukat ng kahit kaninong bakuran. When a Philippine page quotes an FCR “for local conditions”, this is almost always where it came from, and it came from the contract-growing side of the very comparison you are trying to make.
The same paper carries a second finding that belongs in your housing conversation. Growers in climate-controlled houses aimed lower than growers in open-sided ones: 1.48 to 1.70 for big birds against the 1.50 to 1.83 above. Which row you land on is decided by the spec you build to, and under a contract the spec is written by the company. A tighter house is a lower target and a larger loan, and the fee has to carry both.
The gap on the other side is total. No Philippine average has been published for backyard feed conversion, backyard mortality, or backyard days to market weight under village conditions. Not by PSA, not by DA, not by PCAARRD or UPLB or CLSU. That is gap G-1, and it sits underneath every economics table on this site, kasama na ang akin. Aviagen’s own Ross 308 AP objectives put cumulative feed conversion at 1.257 on day 28, where the as-hatched bird weighs 1,657 g and has reached the Philippine harvest window (Ross 308 AP Broiler: Performance Objectives, 2022). That is a controlled-house target and it must never be averaged with the Datuin band. One is a breed company’s objective and the other is what Philippine growers say they are shooting for, and neither of them is a measurement of a bakuran.
The practical consequence: if you are independent and benchmarking against “published Philippine performance”, contract growers with a technician on call ang tinatapatan mo. Landing above 1.83 does not mean you are doing it wrong. A third of the growers in that survey do not reach their own targets either, so plan on the top of the band and treat 1.50 as somebody’s good year. Broiler growth by week sets out where the breed tables and the Philippine target band part company.
What each arrangement is exposed to
| Risk | Independent | Contract |
|---|---|---|
| Feed sack price | Yours, and unforecastable (G-15) | The integrator’s, wherever the integrator supplies the feed. Confirm it in your own clause |
| Selling price at harvest | Yours. PSA Household farmgate is where you find out | The integrator’s, so long as the fee is not itself indexed to it |
| Mortality | Yours | Yours, up to whatever threshold the contract names |
| Chick quality and supply | Yours to source, at a dealer price nobody publishes | Supplied. You lose the choice along with the risk |
| Disease and depopulation | Yours | Read the clause. It will exist |
| Late pickup | Not applicable, you sell when you choose | Read the clause. It may not exist |
| The building and its loan | Yours | Yours, and specified by somebody else |
Madaling hindi mapansin ang pattern, kasi hindi ito simetriko. A contract moves the price risks and leaves the biological and capital risks exactly where they were. Totoong paglilipat iyon, may tunay na halaga, and it is also smaller than the “sila na ang bahala” story the recruitment pitch tells.
Where this leaves you
Do this in order. Mga isang linggo lang ang aabutin.
Get the actual kontrata first, in writing, from the specific integrator recruiting in your area. Hindi ang brochure. Take the ten rows above and fill each one from the document. Anything you cannot fill in is a question for the field officer, and the quality of those sagot is itself data about the company.
Then build your independent floor. Tawagan mo ang feed dealer mo for this week’s presyo ng sako, find that price among the rows on the break-even tool, and read the top of the band in the cell rather than the bottom. The grid spans the whole 1.50–1.83 Datuin target range inside every cell, so there is nothing to run twice. It charges the chick at the ₱33.50/head BAI farmgate figure, which is a wholesale floor your dealer sits above, so your own number lands a little higher than what the table prints. The 50-bird batch cost walks the same arithmetic line by line kung gusto mo munang makita sa papel, and the break-even price page explains what the resulting ₱/kg does and does not tell you. Iyon ang numerong itatabi mo sa alok na bayad.
Work it out for your own flock
What farmgate price do you need to break even? Open the calculator
Ten rows, ₱1,500 to ₱2,400 a sack. Find yours and the cell gives the ₱ per kilo liveweight a batch of 100 has to clear, printed as a band because the Philippine feed conversion figure is a band. Carry the top of it into the meeting. That is the floor any grower fee has to beat.
Only then is the comparison possible, and it will be a comparison for your building, sa barangay ninyo, this season. It will not generalise, and neither will anybody else’s. If you want the wider picture of an independent broiler batch before any of this, raising broilers in the Philippines is the place to start.
Isa pang bagay. When somebody publishes a confident grower fee with no date and no source, they are telling you they have not read a kontrata recently. The number you need is not on the internet. Nasa folder iyon na dala ng field officer.
Questions people actually ask
How much does an integrator pay a contract grower per kilo in the Philippines?
No integrator publishes a fee schedule and no agency collects one, so there is no published figure to quote. It is logged as an open data gap (G-2). The fee is in the contract you are offered, and that document is the only citable source for it.
Is contract growing more profitable than raising broilers independently? Show the answer
That cannot be answered from published Philippine data, because one side of the comparison is unpublished. What can be said is what each side carries: a contract moves the feed price and the selling price to the integrator, and leaves you the mortality, the labour and the building.
What is the farmgate price a backyard raiser actually gets? Show the answer
PSA priced broiler at ₱150.31 per kilo liveweight in June 2026 in its Household table, and ₱118.69 per kilo in its Commercial establishment table for the same month. They are different market levels and must not be averaged.
Do published Philippine broiler performance figures describe backyard flocks? Show the answer
Mostly not. The one Philippine survey in wide use, Datuin et al. (2022), sampled 55 respondents of whom 48 were contract growers and 7 were integrators. No Philippine backyard feed conversion figure has been published at all.