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Five seasons of area totals.

What MDC published for each managed area, 2021-2022 through 2025-2026. Whole-area numbers only. MDC does not publish blind or pool history, so this is each area as a whole, not a spot within it.

Nodaway Valley by season

Season	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
2021-2022	59	3,606	1,689	2.13
2022-2023	52	3,819	1,498	2.55
2023-2024	58	4,893	1,850	2.64
2024-2025	59	3,461	1,735	1.99
2025-2026	54	1,916	1,135	1.69

Per hunter is total ducks divided by total hunters for the season. 2 posted records are left out because MDC posted more than one for the same day or gave no hunter count.

2022-2023 day by day

Every row shares the same dates, so read straight down. Gaps are days MDC did not report, not zero-bird days. Tap a season in the table above to switch.

By morning temperature, all five seasons

Temp	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Below 25°F	28	1,230	685	1.80
25 to 35°F	78	5,103	2,215	2.30
35 to 45°F	101	6,706	2,953	2.27
45 to 55°F	60	3,622	1,675	2.16
55°F and up	15	1,034	379	2.73

By morning wind, all five seasons

Wind	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Under 5 mph	79	4,431	2,266	1.96
5 to 10 mph	92	5,138	2,463	2.09
10 to 15 mph	73	4,709	2,062	2.28
15 mph and up	38	3,417	1,116	3.06

By river trend, all five seasons

River	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Falling	42	2,294	1,171	1.96
Steady	235	15,178	6,617	2.29
Rising	5	223	119	1.87

Falling or rising means the river moved 10% or more over the three days before the posted date. River is Missouri River at St. Joseph, MO, about 26 miles from the area. It is a river reading, not the water level in any pool, and MDC controls pool water with pumps and gates.

These tables describe past days. They are not a forecast, a small day count means a shaky number, and one thing lining up with another does not mean it caused it. Temperature and wind are from St Joseph Rosecrans Memorial Airport, about 24 miles away, for sunrise to mid-morning on MDC's posted date.

2022-2023 every posted day (52)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
10-29	114	31	31/66	1	37,500
10-30	83	35	42/63	3	37,400
10-31	57	23	38/67	4	36,700
11-01	35	26	34/77	1	37,400
11-02	42	20	48/73	13	37,400
11-03	44	26	59/73	21	37,100
11-04	106	26	38/68	12	37,700
11-05	156	33	35/53	18	39,200
11-06	127	34	35/62	5	38,100
11-07	134	25	36/55	12	37,100
11-08	115	27	45/62	10	37,000
11-09	92	33	56/71	17	36,700
11-10	124	35	34/72	18	36,100
11-11	154	32	22/36	18	37,000
11-12	144	35	15/28	14	37,200
11-13	128	34	13/39	1	38,100
11-14	109	28	31/43	7	38,000
11-15	122	31	21/35	10	37,600
11-16	129	28	18/31	17	38,200
11-17	118	30	19/39	8	37,900
11-18	79	38	15/26	15	36,900
11-19	60	35	15/32	19	35,900
11-20	16	31	14/49	11	35,600
11-21	89	27	16/54	4	35,500
11-22	44	34	17/61	3	35,400
11-23	91	38	25/58	2	35,500
11-24	97	38	31/54	2	35,500
11-25	103	43	21/53	1	34,400
11-26	110	44	19/51	2	33,100
11-27	100	34	27/46	17	32,500
11-28	81	27	19/55	6	30,800
11-29	117	27	23/55	16	28,200
11-30	58	40	12/34	11	26,700
12-01	48	30	15/49	13	24,900
12-02	64	34	27/60	24	24,000
12-03	22	40	13/31	9	23,900
12-04	22	26	18/43	5	22,800
12-05	26	30	22/50	5	22,600
12-06	34	18	23/45	4	22,700
12-07	29	18	21/45	0	21,400
12-08	40	17	32/46	6	20,900
12-09	58	33	33/42	9	21,700
12-10	38	40	19/39	3	21,600
12-11	44	23	21/33	6	21,000
12-12	31	12	31/41	9	20,700
12-13	30	20	37/51	12	21,100
12-14	52	19	27/37	13	21,400
12-15	60	26	26/33	16	22,200
12-16	35	27	21/30	17	22,100
12-17	7	18	12/30	13	21,100
12-18	0	7	8/35	1	20,300
12-19	1	12	25/37	7	19,200

About this data

Source: Missouri Department of Conservation, Waterfowl Harvest and Hunting Updates (area daily totals); weather: NOAA GHCNh station observations. Pulled 2026-10-13.
MDC does not say whether its date is the hunt day or the day it posted the report. We show it as posted.
No species breakdown and no teal season numbers are published.