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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 »

2019 2021
Milk deliveries in 2020 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2020 ± on 2019 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 255 241 258 251 262 251 255 248 237 241 234 248 2.982 +1,7%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 608 577 618 600 622 594 609 584 560 565 548 582 7.067 +0,7%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 283 270 291 283 290 276 283 270 261 265 257 272 3.300 +1,4%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 153 146 157 153 157 152 155 149 143 144 140 148 1.796 +0,9%
Baden-Württemberg 182 174 188 183 189 181 185 180 171 174 167 176 2.149 +0,5%
Bayern 612 586 632 615 637 609 620 601 568 570 546 576 7.172 -1,2%
Bundesgebiet West 2.092 1.994 2.144 2.085 2.156 2.062 2.107 2.033 1.940 1.959 1.893 2.003 24.466 +0,3%
Berlin / Brandenburg 104 99 106 104 108 103 105 102 97 99 95 99 1.221 -1,0%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 124 118 126 122 126 121 121 118 114 115 111 116 1.431 -0,2%
Sachsen 136 131 141 135 137 131 135 132 127 129 125 131 1.591 +0,8%
Sachsen-Anhalt 88 84 90 87 89 85 87 83 80 81 79 83 1.016 -2,7%
Thüringen 74 71 77 74 76 72 75 72 69 70 67 70 867 -2,4%
Bundesgebiet Ost 526 503 540 521 536 512 523 507 487 494 477 499 6.126 -0,8%
Organic Milk deliveries in 2020 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2020 ± on 2019 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 3,51 3,48 3,63 3,75 4,22 3,91 3,84 3,73 3,48 3,44 3,44 3,75 44,16 +4,3%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 8,64 8,29 8,86 9,15 9,97 9,18 9,08 8,81 8,48 8,51 8,12 8,69 105,78 +5,3%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,77 7,35 8,08 8,04 8,35 7,80 7,82 7,37 7,11 7,25 6,98 7,55 91,49 +1,8%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,39 8,05 8,62 8,81 9,57 8,91 8,92 8,54 8,15 8,06 7,93 8,44 102,39 +4,0%
Baden-Württemberg 14,28 13,88 15,06 15,40 16,74 15,54 15,62 15,18 14,44 14,31 13,52 14,35 178,34 +3,0%
Bayern 47,50 46,43 50,27 51,12 54,96 50,82 51,40 50,44 47,47 46,75 44,24 47,60 588,98 +3,4%
Bundesgebiet West 90,09 87,48 94,52 96,27 103,81 96,17 96,68 94,06 89,13 88,32 84,24 90,38 1.111,14 +3,5%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,00 2,80 3,00 2,89 3,06 2,99 3,01 2,83 2,69 2,61 2,51 2,65 34,04 -4,4%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,15 1,97 2,18 2,18 2,31 2,23 2,27 2,11 2,07 2,11 1,99 2,13 25,69 +35,3%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 4,64 4,61 4,96 4,79 4,94 4,59 4,76 4,71 4,63 4,74 4,68 4,93 56,99 +14,0%
Thüringen 0,52 0,48 0,51 0,52 0,59 0,55 0,54 0,54 0,54 0,53 0,51 0,56 6,38 -1,5%
Bundesgebiet Ost 10,30 9,86 10,65 10,38 10,90 10,35 10,58 10,20 9,92 10,00 9,69 10,28 123,10 +10,8%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2020 ± on 2019 *
Conventional milk 2.618 2.497 2.683 2.606 2.692 2.573 2.630 2.540 2.427 2.453 2.370 2.502 30.592 +0,1%
change * +0,8% +4,5% +0,5% -0,1% -0,3% 0,0% +0,5% -1,0% -0,3% -1,1% -0,8% -1,3%
Organic milk 100 97 105 107 115 107 107 104 99 98 94 101 1.234 +4,2%
change * +4,2% +8,8% +3,5% +3,5% +2,6% +2,6% +4,0% +3,3% +4,9% +4,4% +5,1% +4,2%
Extra Germany 60 55 60 64 69 66 64 58 56 59 56 59 726 +4,4%
change * +2,2% -0,4% -5,0% +4,2% +9,6% +7,0% +12,8% +3,6% +4,5% +8,8% +5,7% +0,7%
Total Germany 2020 2.779 2.650 2.849 2.777 2.875 2.746 2.801 2.702 2.582 2.610 2.519 2.661 32.552
% change on 2019 +1,0% +4,5% +0,5% +0,2% +0,0% +0,2% +0,9% -0,8% 0,0% -0,7% -0,5% -1,1% +0,3%
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
Last update: 28-03-2024
* % 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
2021
Nov
2021
May
2022
Nov
2022
May
2023
Nov
2023
± on
2023
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 7,33 6,44 7,42 6,59 7,57 6,87 +4,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 7,83 6,79 7,89 7,08 8,10 7,18 +1,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,69 6,63 7,77 7,00 7,91 6,91 -1,3%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 7,05 5,90 6,81 6,19 7,11 6,25 +1,0%
Baden-Württemberg 6,52 5,44 6,37 5,68 6,60 5,72 +0,8%
Bayern 6,26 5,27 6,18 5,51 6,46 5,63 +2,1%
Berlin / Brandenburg 8,07 7,14 7,85 7,09 8,14 7,21 +1,6%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7,94 7,16 7,95 7,24 8,28 7,41 +2,4%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 8,19 7,34 8,20 7,63 8,47 7,64 +0,1%
Thüringen 8,19 7,17 8,05 7,46 8,33 7,51 +0,6%
Total Germany 7,22 6,22 7,19 6,47 7,42 6,55 +1,4%
Former Federal territory 7,96 6,81 7,94 7,12 8,19 7,21 +1,2%
New Federal states 11,51 10,30 11,46 10,58 11,88 10,64 +0,6%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 28-03-2024
Processed by CLAL
Number of Dairy Cows
German Länder May
2020
Nov
2020
May
2021
Nov
2021
May
2022
Nov
2022
May
2023
Nov
2023
± on
2022
Baden-Württemberg 325.288 320.852 319.540 315.337 314.473 314.796 310.855 309.148 -1,8%
Bayern 1.119.195 1.104.468 1.102.479 1.086.209 1.082.827 1.078.276 1.070.895 1.056.855 -2,0%
Berlin 107 108 112 108 115 111 106 102 -8,1%
Brandenburg 140.083 137.068 134.545 132.351 131.182 128.947 126.696 123.621 -4,1%
Bremen 3.323 3.295 3.306 3.147 3.074 3.162 3.171 3.023 -4,4%
Hamburg 1.143 1.190 1.152 1.136 1.120 1.184 1.173 1.029 -13,1%
Hessen 130.005 128.033 127.481 124.857 124.436 122.606 122.023 119.579 -2,5%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 160.419 159.115 156.850 153.153 152.361 151.354 150.649 149.230 -1,4%
Niedersachsen 822.178 814.114 809.498 798.278 801.349 804.170 799.337 783.835 -2,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 397.824 393.221 387.862 384.215 381.574 383.400 378.939 375.141 -2,2%
Rheinland-Pfalz 104.111 101.872 100.023 98.537 97.389 97.178 95.868 94.264 -3,0%
Saarland 12.980 12.676 12.499 12.500 12.415 12.363 12.189 11.921 -3,6%
Sachsen 176.116 174.958 174.491 171.898 170.055 169.138 167.979 164.343 -2,8%
Sachsen-Anhalt 110.499 108.103 106.476 103.628 102.225 101.164 101.137 97.692 -3,4%
Schleswig-Holstein 370.787 370.888 364.856 360.245 357.034 357.574 350.685 341.631 -4,5%
Thüringen 95.219 91.449 90.339 87.117 85.692 84.294 83.489 81.401 -3,4%
Total Germany 3.969.277 3.921.410 3.891.509 3.832.716 3.817.321 3.809.717 3.775.191 3.712.815 -2,5%
Former Federal territory 3.286.941 3.250.717 3.228.808 3.184.569 3.175.806 3.174.820 3.145.241 3.096.528 -2,5%
New Federal states 682.336 670.693 662.701 648.147 641.515 634.897 629.950 616.287 -2,9%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 20-12-2023
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt
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