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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 »



2023 2025
Milk deliveries in 2024 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2024 ± on 2023 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 251 239 258 252 263 252 254 246 228 232 226 240 2.940 -0,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 606 583 628 613 643 616 618 585 551 562 546 583 7.134 -0,6%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 272 262 283 275 285 272 271 257 247 252 244 260 3.179 -2,5%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 146 140 152 147 153 146 147 140 131 133 127 135 1.697 -2,0%
Baden-Württemberg 178 173 187 184 191 182 183 177 167 168 162 170 2.123 +0,9%
Bayern 595 579 628 614 638 608 612 593 559 561 536 566 7.088 +0,6%
Bundesgebiet West 2.048 1.976 2.136 2.084 2.174 2.077 2.085 1.998 1.882 1.908 1.841 1.953 24.162 -0,4%
Berlin / Brandenburg 93 90 98 96 100 95 95 93 87 90 86 91 1.114 -0,4%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 116 113 123 119 124 119 120 118 110 111 108 114 1.396 +0,4%
Sachsen 131 127 138 135 139 133 133 132 126 128 123 129 1.575 -0,1%
Sachsen-Anhalt 76 74 81 79 81 78 77 75 71 72 70 74 908 -4,1%
Thüringen 66 63 68 66 69 66 66 64 61 61 58 62 770 -1,2%
Bundesgebiet Ost 482 468 508 495 513 490 492 482 455 463 445 469 5.762 -0,8%
Consegne di latte Biologico 2024 ('000 ton)
"Land" della Germania Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totale 2024 ± su 2023 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 4,57 4,28 4,56 4,62 4,92 4,66 4,62 4,49 4,23 4,33 4,12 4,38 53,79 +0,2%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 10,51 9,99 11,28 11,30 12,00 11,53 11,54 10,68 10,43 10,51 10,03 10,58 130,36 +5,8%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 8,06 7,86 8,43 8,32 8,89 8,21 8,12 7,67 7,34 7,35 7,05 7,67 94,98 -1,7%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,11 7,88 8,59 8,51 8,99 8,35 8,47 8,04 7,48 7,40 6,92 7,42 96,15 -5,0%
Baden-Württemberg 15,82 15,32 16,79 16,96 18,33 16,96 17,23 16,61 15,63 15,95 14,87 15,54 195,99 +4,3%
Bayern 57,10 56,08 61,08 61,64 65,63 60,35 60,16 58,49 54,51 54,32 51,35 55,53 696,24 +2,7%
Bundesgebiet West 104,16 101,41 110,71 111,35 118,76 110,06 110,13 105,98 99,62 99,85 94,35 101,12 1.267,50 +2,2%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,34 3,28 3,40 3,34 3,53 3,23 3,29 3,22 3,05 3,06 2,92 3,15 38,80 -3,9%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,23 2,11 2,32 2,27 2,35 2,14 2,11 2,08 1,90 1,91 1,86 2,06 25,31 -8,2%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 5,74 5,61 6,15 5,89 5,93 5,62 5,72 5,64 5,05 5,22 5,29 5,89 67,74 +6,7%
Thüringen 0,84 0,85 0,85 0,84 0,89 0,86 0,84 0,83 0,77 0,76 0,70 0,79 9,82 -3,9%
Bundesgebiet Ost 12,15 11,84 12,72 12,34 12,70 11,85 11,95 11,77 10,77 10,94 10,77 11,89 141,66 0,0%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2024 ± on 2023 *
Conventional milk 2.530 2.445 2.644 2.579 2.687 2.567 2.577 2.480 2.337 2.370 2.286 2.422 29.924 -0,5%
change * -1,6% +3,6% +0,5% +0,4% +0,5% +0,3% -1,2% -1,2% -1,6% -2,2% -1,9% -1,5%
Organic milk 116 113 123 124 131 122 122 118 110 111 105 113 1.409 +1,9%
change * -0,4% +5,3% +1,8% +2,9% +2,5% +3,4% +2,9% +2,2% +0,5% -0,3% +1,2% +1,4%
Extra Germany 72 69 79 77 80 73 74 71 66 68 66 70 864 -11,2%
change * -17,7% -10,1% -10,1% -11,0% -14,8% -15,0% -10,5% -6,7% -8,1% -8,8% -6,9% -12,2%
Total Germany 2024 2.718 2.627 2.846 2.780 2.898 2.762 2.773 2.668 2.513 2.549 2.457 2.605 32.197
% change on 2023 -2,0% +3,3% +0,2% +0,1% +0,1% 0,0% -1,3% -1,3% -1,7% -2,3% -1,9% -1,7% -0,7%
Total Germany 2023 2.774 2.543 2.840 2.777 2.895 2.763 2.809 2.702 2.556 2.610 2.504 2.650 32.424
Last update: 24-06-2025
* % 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
2022
Nov
2022
May
2023
Nov
2023
May
2024
Nov
2024
± on
2024
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 7,42 6,59 7,57 6,87 8,02 7,07 +3,0%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 7,89 7,08 8,10 7,18 8,40 7,36 +2,4%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,77 7,00 7,91 6,91 7,99 7,00 +1,2%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 6,81 6,19 7,11 6,25 7,32 6,26 +0,1%
Baden-Württemberg 6,37 5,68 6,60 5,72 6,86 5,81 +1,6%
Bayern 6,18 5,51 6,46 5,63 6,70 5,67 +0,7%
Berlin / Brandenburg 7,85 7,09 8,14 7,21 8,47 7,52 +4,3%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7,95 7,24 8,28 7,41 8,57 7,61 +2,7%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 8,20 7,63 8,47 7,64 8,77 7,84 +2,7%
Thüringen 8,05 7,46 8,33 7,51 8,56 7,46 -0,7%
Total Germany 7,19 6,47 7,42 6,55 7,68 6,66 +1,7%
Former Federal territory 7,94 7,12 8,19 7,21 8,45 7,30 +1,3%
New Federal states 11,46 10,58 11,88 10,64 12,26 10,92 +2,6%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 24-06-2025
Processed by CLAL
Number of Dairy Cows
German Länder May
2021
Nov
2021
May
2022
Nov
2022
May
2023
Nov
2023
May
2024
Nov
2024
± on
2023
Baden-Württemberg 319.540 315.337 314.473 314.796 310.855 309.148 305.836 303.691 -1,8%
Bayern 1.102.479 1.086.209 1.082.827 1.078.276 1.070.895 1.056.855 1.050.809 1.036.086 -2,0%
Berlin 112 108 115 111 106 102 97 104 +2,0%
Brandenburg 134.545 132.351 131.182 128.947 126.696 123.621 121.667 118.190 -4,4%
Bremen 3.306 3.147 3.074 3.162 3.171 3.023 2.991 2.911 -3,7%
Hamburg 1.152 1.136 1.120 1.184 1.173 1.029 952 948 -7,9%
Hessen 127.481 124.857 124.436 122.606 122.023 119.579 117.760 114.050 -4,6%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 156.850 153.153 152.361 151.354 150.649 149.230 147.380 144.122 -3,4%
Niedersachsen 809.498 798.278 801.349 804.170 799.337 783.835 776.508 752.508 -4,0%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 387.862 384.215 381.574 383.400 378.939 375.141 368.240 359.303 -4,2%
Rheinland-Pfalz 100.023 98.537 97.389 97.178 95.868 94.264 92.191 89.236 -5,3%
Saarland 12.499 12.500 12.415 12.363 12.189 11.921 11.368 11.218 -5,9%
Sachsen 174.491 171.898 170.055 169.138 167.979 164.343 162.607 160.008 -2,6%
Sachsen-Anhalt 106.476 103.628 102.225 101.164 101.137 97.692 95.561 93.221 -4,6%
Schleswig-Holstein 364.856 360.245 357.034 357.574 350.685 341.631 333.184 324.797 -4,9%
Thüringen 90.339 87.117 85.692 84.294 83.489 81.401 81.139 79.038 -2,9%
Total Germany 3.891.509 3.832.716 3.817.321 3.809.717 3.775.191 3.712.815 3.668.290 3.589.431 -3,3%
Former Federal territory 3.228.808 3.184.569 3.175.806 3.174.820 3.145.241 3.096.528 3.059.936 2.994.852 -3,3%
New Federal states 662.701 648.147 641.515 634.897 629.950 616.287 608.354 594.579 -3,5%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 31-12-2024
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt
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