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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 2019
Milk deliveries in 2018 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2018 ± on 2017 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 253 228 251 248 263 252 253 244 232 236 229 243 2.932 +1,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 599 543 597 593 628 599 605 583 555 562 544 578 6.986 +1,8%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 261 236 261 258 269 256 260 251 238 241 233 246 3.011 +0,8%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 159 144 159 158 165 156 158 152 143 145 141 149 1.828 +1,2%
Baden-Württemberg 187 171 190 186 194 184 188 181 172 174 166 176 2.169 +0,5%
Bayern 632 579 645 637 663 630 643 620 587 594 565 596 7.393 +1,1%
Bundesgebiet West 2.091 1.902 2.103 2.081 2.182 2.078 2.107 2.031 1.928 1.952 1.878 1.988 24.320 +1,2%
Berlin / Brandenburg 111 101 108 110 114 108 108 103 100 102 99 104 1.269 -0,5%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 121 112 122 119 125 120 123 118 113 116 112 118 1.418 -1,0%
Sachsen 141 127 141 139 142 136 140 133 128 131 126 132 1.615 -0,9%
Sachsen-Anhalt 92 85 92 91 95 90 92 87 84 86 84 88 1.066 +1,7%
Thüringen 79 72 79 78 81 77 79 76 72 73 71 75 912 +0,5%
Bundesgebiet Ost 544 496 542 538 558 531 541 516 497 508 491 517 6.279 -0,2%
Consegne di latte Biologico 2018 ('000 ton)
"Land" della Germania Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totale 2018 ± su 2017 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 3,02 2,71 2,98 3,18 3,66 3,33 3,22 3,16 3,06 3,09 3,03 3,35 37,80 +41,7%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 7,69 7,00 7,66 7,91 8,75 8,10 7,95 7,42 7,18 7,44 7,19 7,72 92,01 +35,2%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 8,14 6,74 7,47 7,64 8,17 7,45 7,31 6,90 6,60 7,03 6,73 7,28 87,46 +15,0%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,00 7,19 7,75 7,69 8,37 7,62 7,62 7,07 6,70 6,93 6,63 7,08 88,64 +15,8%
Baden-Württemberg 14,32 13,09 14,30 14,56 16,00 14,72 14,73 13,77 13,14 13,28 12,26 13,12 167,29 +14,8%
Bayern 45,29 41,82 46,78 47,90 51,05 47,03 47,82 45,73 43,23 43,89 40,92 44,07 545,52 +17,1%
Bundesgebiet West 86,45 78,55 86,94 88,88 96,01 88,25 88,65 84,05 79,91 81,67 76,75 82,61 1.018,72 +18,6%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,32 2,97 3,21 3,21 3,41 3,15 3,09 2,89 2,71 2,73 2,75 2,99 36,42 -3,9%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1,67 1,48 1,59 1,62 1,78 1,60 1,53 1,39 1,33 1,33 1,26 1,38 17,96 -4,3%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 1,84 2,48 2,72 2,61 3,63 3,33 3,57 3,38 3,20 3,31 3,71 4,33 38,10 +125,0%
Thüringen 0,55 0,52 0,59 0,59 0,62 0,58 0,57 0,53 0,50 0,54 0,51 0,53 6,62 -1,3%
Bundesgebiet Ost 7,39 7,45 8,11 8,03 9,45 8,66 8,76 8,19 7,73 7,91 8,22 9,22 99,10 +23,4%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2018 ± on 2017 *
Conventional milk 2.635 2.398 2.645 2.619 2.740 2.609 2.649 2.547 2.425 2.460 2.369 2.504 30.599 +0,9%
change * +4,4% +2,9% +0,8% +2,5% +2,6% +1,6% +1,9% -0,3% -0,5% -1,2% -1,7% -1,9%
Organic milk 94 86 95 97 105 97 97 92 88 90 85 92 1.118 +19,0%
change * +33,4% +30,9% +25,8% +25,2% +25,3% +20,8% +20,8% +15,1% +11,8% +11,2% +7,6% +5,4%
Extra Germany 59 54 60 69 73 68 69 67 63 65 62 65 774 +13,5%
change * +6,7% +4,4% +2,1% +19,0% +19,1% +18,4% +18,9% +16,0% +15,3% +14,8% +14,0% +12,1%
Total Germany 2018 2.788 2.538 2.800 2.785 2.918 2.774 2.815 2.706 2.576 2.614 2.517 2.661 32.491
% change on 2017 +5,3% +3,7% +1,5% +3,5% +3,6% +2,5% +2,8% +0,5% +0,2% -0,5% -1,1% -1,3% +1,7%
Total Germany 2017 2.649 2.448 2.759 2.691 2.817 2.707 2.738 2.691 2.570 2.627 2.544 2.697 31.937
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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