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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 »

2020 2022
Milk deliveries in 2021 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2021 ± on 2020 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 253 230 259 253 264 251 256 251 235 238 229 241 2.960 -0,7%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 597 541 612 599 627 589 602 585 548 555 536 567 6.957 -1,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 279 253 286 280 290 271 276 268 252 257 248 264 3.223 -2,3%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 153 139 156 153 159 150 152 146 136 137 132 140 1.753 -2,4%
Baden-Württemberg 180 167 187 184 192 181 183 176 165 166 158 167 2.107 -2,0%
Bayern 594 550 619 606 632 599 606 584 548 552 526 557 6.974 -2,8%
Bundesgebiet West 2.056 1.880 2.121 2.075 2.164 2.042 2.074 2.010 1.884 1.905 1.829 1.936 23.974 -2,0%
Berlin / Brandenburg 101 92 104 102 105 98 100 98 93 95 91 96 1.176 -3,7%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 118 108 121 118 122 115 117 116 108 111 107 112 1.373 -4,0%
Sachsen 134 123 138 134 138 131 137 134 127 129 122 128 1.577 -0,9%
Sachsen-Anhalt 84 77 87 84 87 81 84 82 77 79 76 80 979 -3,7%
Thüringen 71 65 73 72 73 69 71 69 65 65 62 64 819 -5,5%
Bundesgebiet Ost 509 464 524 510 526 494 509 500 471 478 459 479 5.923 -3,3%
Organic Milk deliveries in 2021 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2021 ± on 2020 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 3,65 3,25 3,76 3,78 4,07 3,89 3,92 3,57 3,60 3,65 3,35 3,47 43,95 -0,5%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 8,64 7,85 9,01 9,04 9,85 9,19 9,23 8,87 8,57 8,56 8,06 8,41 105,28 -0,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,82 7,16 8,05 7,92 8,44 7,83 7,61 7,47 7,09 7,12 6,80 7,22 90,52 -1,1%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,69 7,91 9,07 9,04 9,85 9,36 9,35 8,97 8,36 8,30 7,49 8,04 104,42 +2,0%
Baden-Württemberg 14,76 13,78 15,68 15,61 16,79 15,62 15,61 14,98 14,24 14,49 13,18 13,87 178,62 +0,2%
Bayern 49,50 46,38 52,74 52,53 58,00 54,00 54,38 52,58 49,81 50,07 46,43 50,14 616,54 +4,7%
Bundesgebiet West 93,06 86,31 98,31 97,92 107,00 99,89 100,10 96,43 91,67 92,18 85,32 91,15 1.139,33 +2,5%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,13 2,86 3,32 3,35 3,48 3,35 3,38 3,30 3,04 3,28 3,22 3,51 39,22 +15,2%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,24 1,96 2,21 2,26 2,56 2,42 2,45 2,44 2,37 2,33 2,20 2,33 27,76 +8,0%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 5,02 4,55 5,03 4,65 4,73 4,44 4,44 4,29 3,93 3,97 3,88 4,31 53,24 -6,6%
Thüringen 0,57 0,51 0,56 0,55 0,59 0,57 0,58 0,56 0,52 0,52 0,56 0,60 6,67 +4,6%
Bundesgebiet Ost 10,96 9,88 11,12 10,80 11,36 10,78 10,85 10,58 9,86 10,10 9,86 10,74 126,89 +3,1%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2021 ± on 2020 *
Conventional milk 2.565 2.344 2.644 2.585 2.690 2.535 2.583 2.510 2.355 2.383 2.288 2.415 29.897 -2,3%
change * -2,0% -6,1% -1,4% -0,8% -0,1% -1,5% -1,8% -1,2% -3,0% -2,9% -3,4% -3,5%
Organic milk 104 96 109 109 118 111 111 107 102 102 95 102 1.266 +2,6%
change * +3,6% -1,2% +4,1% +1,9% +3,2% +3,9% +3,4% +2,6% +2,5% +4,0% +1,3% +1,2%
Extra Germany 63 58 65 64 68 64 71 68 63 66 64 67 779 +7,3%
change * +3,7% +4,1% +7,6% -0,7% -0,8% -2,6% +10,6% +17,1% +12,7% +12,2% +13,9% +13,4%
Total Germany 2021 2.731 2.498 2.819 2.758 2.877 2.710 2.765 2.684 2.519 2.551 2.447 2.583 31.942
% change on 2020 -1,7% -5,7% -1,1% -0,7% +0,0% -1,3% -1,3% -0,7% -2,4% -2,3% -2,9% -2,9% -1,9%
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
Last update: 19-04-2024
* % 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: 19-04-2024
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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