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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 »



2017
Milk deliveries in 2016 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2016 ± on 2015 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 250 237 252 250 260 243 243 236 220 224 217 236 2.868 -0,8%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 584 555 594 584 612 577 582 562 525 531 508 551 6.765 +0,8%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 258 244 262 257 267 251 254 246 231 232 223 240 2.965 -1,0%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 165 158 168 165 170 159 160 154 142 142 136 146 1.863 -1,8%
Baden-Württemberg 186 179 193 190 196 185 188 182 170 172 163 174 2.178 +1,0%
Bayern 628 603 649 642 665 629 640 622 579 581 550 587 7.374 +0,7%
Bundesgebiet West 2.071 1.975 2.118 2.087 2.170 2.045 2.066 2.003 1.867 1.881 1.798 1.935 24.014 +0,1%
Berlin / Brandenburg 116 111 118 114 117 109 110 108 101 102 98 104 1.309 -5,4%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 131 125 134 130 136 129 131 127 118 116 110 116 1.502 -5,8%
Sachsen 143 137 147 143 146 137 141 139 130 130 125 132 1.650 -1,9%
Sachsen-Anhalt 96 92 98 96 98 93 95 92 86 87 82 87 1.101 -2,3%
Thüringen 84 80 86 83 84 79 81 78 73 74 70 74 947 -4,0%
Bundesgebiet Ost 572 545 583 567 581 546 557 545 508 508 484 514 6.509 -3,9%
Consegne di latte Biologico 2016 ('000 ton)
"Land" della Germania Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totale 2016 ± su 2015 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 1,73 1,60 1,77 1,86 2,18 2,08 2,12 2,06 1,88 1,75 1,66 1,85 22,53 n.d.
Niedersachsen / Bremen 4,20 3,86 4,21 4,30 4,79 4,43 4,30 4,29 3,57 3,53 3,30 3,57 48,34 n.d.
Nordrhein-Westfalen 5,36 5,13 5,57 5,57 6,02 5,51 5,51 5,24 4,95 5,01 4,92 5,60 64,38 n.d.
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 5,74 5,37 5,87 5,91 6,49 5,89 5,95 5,55 5,08 5,05 4,81 5,23 66,94 n.d.
Baden-Württemberg 9,95 9,48 10,37 10,78 11,88 10,79 10,96 10,97 10,46 10,53 9,37 10,06 125,60 n.d.
Bayern 31,48 30,22 33,04 34,32 37,31 34,31 34,55 34,19 32,70 32,67 30,71 33,71 399,19 n.d.
Bundesgebiet West 58,46 55,66 60,83 62,75 68,66 63,02 63,38 62,29 58,64 58,53 54,76 60,01 726,99 n.d.
Berlin / Brandenburg 2,68 2,63 2,75 2,66 2,89 2,70 3,25 3,27 3,03 3,05 3,05 3,29 35,25 n.d.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1,12 1,07 1,14 1,14 1,34 1,42 1,31 1,33 1,16 1,15 1,13 1,32 14,61 n.d.
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 0,95 0,81 0,85 0,93 1,05 0,98 1,05 0,94 0,89 1,05 0,91 1,00 11,41 n.d.
Thüringen 0,54 0,49 0,55 0,56 0,60 0,56 0,58 0,53 0,53 0,55 0,49 0,49 6,46 n.d.
Bundesgebiet Ost 5,28 5,00 5,29 5,29 5,88 5,66 6,19 6,08 5,60 5,79 5,57 6,10 67,73 n.d.
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2016 ± on 2015 *
Conventional milk 2.643 2.519 2.701 2.654 2.751 2.591 2.623 2.547 2.374 2.389 2.282 2.448 30.523 -0,7%
change * +3,6% +8,1% +3,1% +1,8% +0,4% -1,9% -1,6% -2,5% -3,7% -4,4% -5,9% -5,5%
Organic milk 64 61 66 68 75 69 70 68 64 64 60 66 795 +8,5%
change * +8,3% +13,4% +8,2% +10,2% +9,6% +7,6% +8,2% +8,7% +7,0% +7,1% +6,3% +8,1%
Extra Germany 55 53 57 57 60 56 56 55 51 51 50 54 655 +65,2%
change * +27,2% +27,4% +23,5% +25,6% +25,1% +22,6% +20,3% +19,6% +19,7%
Total Germany 2016 2.762 2.633 2.824 2.779 2.886 2.716 2.749 2.670 2.489 2.504 2.392 2.568 31.973
% change on 2015 +5,8% +10,5% +5,3% +2,4% +1,1% -1,3% -0,9% -1,8% -3,0% -3,7% -5,2% -4,8% +0,3%
Total Germany 2015 2.611 2.383 2.681 2.715 2.855 2.751 2.776 2.719 2.567 2.601 2.523 2.698 31.879
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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