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German "Länder": Monthly Milk Deliveries

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On this page, you will find:
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's milk in the 16 German states (German Länder);
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's organic milk in the German Länder over a given period;
  • a summary table, which records the sum of conventional, organic and "Extra" Germany (processed in Germany, but coming from other EU Members States) deliveries of cow's milk over a given period;
  • two charts showing the monthly figures of conventional and organic milk deliveries in Germany;
  • a chart showing the share of the milk deliveried in the German Länder.
German Länder deliveries can be viewed from 2016 and changes in Germany's milk deliveries.

Farm-gate milk prices in Germany » Organic milk prices in Germany »



2021 2023
Milk deliveries in 2022 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2022 ± on 2021 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 249 229 256 249 262 252 256 248 235 239 233 243 2.951 -0,3%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 589 546 610 592 625 600 609 593 565 577 562 589 7.057 +1,4%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 273 253 283 274 288 274 278 270 259 267 261 272 3.251 +0,9%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 144 133 147 142 150 144 146 142 134 138 136 142 1.699 -3,1%
Baden-Württemberg 173 161 180 175 183 175 178 174 166 169 164 171 2.069 -1,8%
Bayern 578 539 601 584 609 582 591 579 549 560 543 570 6.883 -1,3%
Bundesgebiet West 2.007 1.861 2.077 2.017 2.116 2.026 2.058 2.006 1.908 1.949 1.898 1.988 23.910 -0,3%
Berlin / Brandenburg 96 90 100 96 100 96 96 94 90 92 89 92 1.130 -3,9%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 114 106 119 113 119 115 118 114 109 110 108 113 1.358 -1,1%
Sachsen 132 122 136 130 135 130 134 132 126 129 125 131 1.561 -1,0%
Sachsen-Anhalt 82 75 84 81 84 81 83 81 78 79 76 79 964 -1,5%
Thüringen 66 61 68 65 68 66 67 66 63 64 62 65 780 -4,7%
Bundesgebiet Ost 490 454 506 485 505 488 498 488 466 474 460 480 5.793 -2,2%
Consegne di latte Biologico 2022 ('000 ton)
"Land" della Germania Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totale 2022 ± su 2021 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 3,62 3,26 3,69 3,76 4,26 4,06 4,00 3,86 3,52 4,00 4,02 4,21 46,26 +5,3%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 8,68 7,86 8,86 8,99 10,20 9,49 9,58 9,40 8,90 9,52 9,51 9,95 110,94 +5,4%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 8,08 7,28 8,28 8,24 9,10 8,45 8,33 7,84 7,45 8,05 7,79 8,13 97,01 +7,2%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,52 7,82 8,68 8,63 9,61 8,98 8,74 8,36 7,84 8,35 8,11 8,48 102,12 -2,2%
Baden-Württemberg 14,77 13,60 15,21 15,38 17,22 15,85 15,81 15,26 14,83 15,22 14,42 14,90 182,46 +2,2%
Bayern 53,14 49,44 55,42 54,87 60,16 55,78 55,96 54,55 52,08 52,80 51,43 54,08 649,69 +5,4%
Bundesgebiet West 96,80 89,26 100,13 99,88 110,54 102,61 102,41 99,26 94,61 97,94 95,28 99,75 1.188,47 +4,3%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,61 3,27 3,68 3,49 3,48 3,15 3,23 3,16 3,03 3,05 2,95 3,02 39,11 -0,3%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,35 2,17 2,41 2,20 2,28 2,15 2,18 2,10 2,01 2,09 1,97 1,99 25,90 -6,7%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 4,54 4,19 4,59 4,22 4,64 4,52 4,59 4,62 4,35 4,94 4,68 4,91 54,80 +2,9%
Thüringen 0,61 0,54 0,58 0,58 1,02 0,94 0,93 0,86 0,83 0,91 0,78 0,83 9,41 +41,1%
Bundesgebiet Ost 11,11 10,17 11,26 10,49 11,42 10,77 10,93 10,75 10,23 10,99 10,38 10,74 129,23 +1,8%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2022 ± on 2021 *
Conventional milk 2.497 2.315 2.583 2.502 2.621 2.514 2.556 2.493 2.374 2.423 2.358 2.467 29.703 -0,6%
change * -2,7% -1,3% -2,3% -3,2% -2,6% -0,8% -1,0% -0,6% +0,8% +1,7% +3,0% +2,2%
Organic milk 108 99 111 110 122 113 113 110 105 109 106 110 1.318 +4,1%
change * +3,7% +3,4% +1,8% +1,5% +3,0% +2,4% +2,2% +2,8% +3,3% +6,5% +11,0% +8,4%
Extra Germany 71 70 84 73 83 76 79 78 72 79 79 84 926 +18,9%
change * +12,7% +21,1% +28,5% +15,6% +21,5% +18,6% +11,4% +14,2% +13,3% +19,4% +24,9% +25,9%
Total Germany 2022 2.675 2.484 2.778 2.685 2.826 2.704 2.748 2.681 2.551 2.611 2.543 2.662 31.947
% change on 2021 -2,1% -0,6% -1,4% -2,6% -1,8% -0,2% -0,6% -0,1% +1,2% +2,3% +3,9% +3,0% +0,0%
Total Germany 2021 2.731 2.498 2.819 2.758 2.877 2.710 2.765 2.684 2.519 2.551 2.447 2.583 31.942
Last update: 19-03-2026
* % change from same period of previous year.
Source: BLE

Rolling year: for each month the chart visualizes the production in that month plus the production of the previous 11 months. With this method is always considered the total production in a time window of 12 months, so it is possible to identify the trend without the effect of seasonality.

MILK PRODUCTION / COW - Quintals
German Länder May
2023
Nov
2023
May
2024
Nov
2024
May
2025
Nov
2025
± on
2025
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 7,57 6,87 8,02 7,07 8,32 7,66 +8,4%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 8,10 7,18 8,40 7,36 8,53 7,96 +8,2%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,91 6,91 7,99 7,00 7,85 7,39 +5,6%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 7,11 6,25 7,32 6,26 7,28 6,78 +8,3%
Baden-Württemberg 6,60 5,72 6,86 5,81 6,98 6,41 +10,4%
Bayern 6,46 5,63 6,70 5,67 6,71 6,07 +7,2%
Berlin / Brandenburg 8,14 7,21 8,47 7,52 8,70 7,96 +6,0%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 8,28 7,41 8,57 7,61 9,03 8,18 +7,6%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 8,47 7,64 8,77 7,84 8,85 8,14 +3,7%
Thüringen 8,33 7,51 8,56 7,46 8,52 7,86 +5,3%
Total Germany 7,42 6,55 7,68 6,66 7,76 7,15 +7,4%
Former Federal territory 8,19 7,21 8,45 7,30 8,50 7,87 +7,8%
New Federal states 11,88 10,64 12,26 10,92 12,48 11,45 +4,8%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 19-03-2026
Processed by CLAL
Number of Dairy Cows
German Länder May
2022
Nov
2022
May
2023
Nov
2023
May
2024
Nov
2024
May
2025
Nov
2025
± on
2024
Baden-Württemberg 314.473 314.796 310.855 309.148 305.836 303.691 300.715 301.138 -0,8%
Bayern 1.082.827 1.078.276 1.070.895 1.056.855 1.050.809 1.036.086 1.034.174 1.030.887 -0,5%
Berlin 115 111 106 102 97 104 95 87 -16,3%
Brandenburg 131.182 128.947 126.696 123.621 121.667 118.190 117.924 118.148 0,0%
Bremen 3.074 3.162 3.171 3.023 2.991 2.911 2.948 3.009 +3,4%
Hamburg 1.120 1.184 1.173 1.029 952 948 941 916 -3,4%
Hessen 124.436 122.606 122.023 119.579 117.760 114.050 113.176 114.021 0,0%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 152.361 151.354 150.649 149.230 147.380 144.122 145.577 145.072 +0,7%
Niedersachsen 801.349 804.170 799.337 783.835 776.508 752.508 749.974 759.037 +0,9%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 381.574 383.400 378.939 375.141 368.240 359.303 361.584 367.046 +2,2%
Rheinland-Pfalz 97.389 97.178 95.868 94.264 92.191 89.236 88.461 89.581 +0,4%
Saarland 12.415 12.363 12.189 11.921 11.368 11.218 11.108 11.249 +0,3%
Sachsen 170.055 169.138 167.979 164.343 162.607 160.008 158.952 159.285 -0,5%
Sachsen-Anhalt 102.225 101.164 101.137 97.692 95.561 93.221 93.448 94.458 +1,3%
Schleswig-Holstein 357.034 357.574 350.685 341.631 333.184 324.797 320.414 324.282 -0,2%
Thüringen 85.692 84.294 83.489 81.401 81.139 79.038 78.914 78.417 -0,8%
Total Germany 3.817.321 3.809.717 3.775.191 3.712.815 3.668.290 3.589.431 3.578.405 3.596.633 +0,2%
Former Federal territory 3.175.806 3.174.820 3.145.241 3.096.528 3.059.936 2.994.852 2.983.590 3.001.253 +0,2%
New Federal states 641.515 634.897 629.950 616.287 608.354 594.579 594.815 595.380 +0,1%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 10-03-2026
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt
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