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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 »



2018 2020
Milk deliveries in 2019 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2019 ± on 2018 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 249 229 255 249 259 247 250 245 232 238 232 248 2.933 +0,0%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 595 547 607 594 619 592 603 592 561 571 552 588 7.020 +0,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 278 255 284 277 285 278 274 271 259 264 256 273 3.255 +8,1%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 152 140 156 152 157 149 152 149 141 144 139 148 1.780 -2,7%
Baden-Württemberg 180 167 189 184 191 181 184 180 170 173 165 175 2.139 -1,4%
Bayern 614 567 638 624 649 616 628 613 577 583 559 593 7.260 -1,8%
Bundesgebiet West 2.069 1.904 2.128 2.080 2.159 2.063 2.091 2.051 1.940 1.974 1.902 2.024 24.385 +0,3%
Berlin / Brandenburg 106 98 109 107 109 102 106 103 97 99 96 101 1.233 -2,8%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 121 111 124 121 124 119 124 121 115 119 114 121 1.434 +1,2%
Sachsen 135 124 140 136 138 130 132 130 128 129 125 132 1.578 -2,3%
Sachsen-Anhalt 90 83 92 89 91 86 88 87 84 86 83 86 1.044 -2,0%
Thüringen 76 71 79 76 78 74 76 75 71 72 69 72 888 -2,6%
Bundesgebiet Ost 528 486 543 529 541 511 526 515 495 505 487 512 6.178 -1,6%
Consegne di latte Biologico 2019 ('000 ton)
"Land" della Germania Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totale 2019 ± su 2018 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 3,47 3,14 3,49 3,65 3,98 3,70 3,65 3,65 3,43 3,32 3,29 3,60 42,36 +12,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 8,16 7,45 8,43 8,91 9,60 8,77 8,50 8,20 7,89 8,06 7,92 8,61 100,50 +9,2%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,62 7,09 7,90 8,04 8,29 7,73 7,53 7,29 6,93 7,09 6,91 7,46 89,87 +2,8%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,15 7,52 8,35 8,53 9,32 8,72 8,57 8,42 7,77 7,64 7,35 8,09 98,40 +11,0%
Baden-Württemberg 13,76 12,83 14,72 14,98 16,52 15,35 15,09 14,97 14,15 13,95 12,96 13,89 173,16 +3,5%
Bayern 46,09 42,99 48,97 49,31 53,87 50,09 50,13 49,12 45,51 45,26 42,26 45,75 569,36 +4,4%
Bundesgebiet West 87,23 81,01 91,86 93,43 101,57 94,35 93,46 91,65 85,68 85,33 80,69 87,39 1.073,65 +5,4%
Berlin / Brandenburg 2,76 2,58 3,02 2,93 3,24 3,03 3,21 3,11 2,95 3,03 2,93 2,85 35,62 -2,2%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1,38 1,45 1,65 1,66 1,80 1,72 1,67 1,54 1,43 1,48 1,50 1,71 18,99 +5,8%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 4,38 3,97 4,52 4,39 4,56 4,19 4,23 4,14 3,85 3,82 3,82 4,14 50,00 +31,2%
Thüringen 0,55 0,49 0,58 0,60 0,63 0,57 0,55 0,54 0,50 0,50 0,47 0,51 6,48 -2,1%
Bundesgebiet Ost 9,07 8,49 9,77 9,57 10,23 9,51 9,66 9,32 8,73 8,83 8,71 9,20 111,09 +12,1%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2019 ± on 2018 *
Conventional milk 2.596 2.390 2.670 2.608 2.700 2.575 2.617 2.566 2.435 2.479 2.389 2.536 30.562 -0,1%
change * -1,5% -0,3% +1,0% -0,4% -1,5% -1,3% -1,2% +0,8% +0,4% +0,8% +0,8% +1,3%
Organic milk 96 90 102 103 112 104 103 101 94 94 89 97 1.185 +6,0%
change * +2,6% +4,1% +6,9% +6,3% +6,0% +7,2% +5,9% +9,5% +7,7% +5,1% +5,2% +5,2%
Extra Germany 59 56 64 61 63 62 57 56 54 54 53 58 695 -10,2%
change * +0,2% +3,2% +5,9% -11,6% -13,7% -9,7% -17,8% -16,0% -15,1% -16,3% -15,2% -10,9%
Total Germany 2019 2.752 2.535 2.836 2.773 2.874 2.740 2.777 2.723 2.583 2.628 2.531 2.691 32.442
% change on 2018 -1,3% -0,1% +1,3% -0,5% -1,5% -1,2% -1,4% +0,7% +0,3% +0,5% +0,6% +1,1% -0,2%
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
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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