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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.

2023-2024 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.

2023-2024 every posted day (60)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
10-28	140	31	31/45	11	41,800
10-29	119	30	30/39	14	42,100
10-30	139	30	26/42	12	41,800
10-31	143	27	19/41	20	41,800
11-01	113	22	15/51	9	42,400
11-02	129	31	25/64	6	41,000
11-03	125	29	47/66	16	40,300
11-04	78	30	36/53	2	40,400
11-05	123	36	29/71	2	40,400
11-06 *	98	32	43/74	3	39,800
11-06 *	98	32	43/74	3	39,800
11-07	50	21	39/76	10	39,800
11-08	46	27	46/70	6	40,500
11-09	87	32	30/63	1	39,900
11-10	86	30	27/55	2	39,900
11-11	69	36	30/54	7	39,800
11-12	90	31	33/71	9	40,100
11-13	75	25	28/72	4	40,200
11-14	112	29	32/70	7	40,400
11-15	62	28	37/72	4	40,700
11-16	147	35	43/64	12	40,800
11-17	98	27	32/55	8	40,500
11-18	110	35	28/67	3	40,900
11-19	119	33	38/56	3	41,000
11-20	127	32	42/47	11	41,300
11-21	166	43	31/46	17	42,000
11-22	120	36	25/52	4	41,600
11-23	87	43	28/49	12	41,400
11-24	107	39	26/35	14	41,800
11-25	90	41	24/33	6	41,700
11-26	120	44	20/38	9	42,500
11-27	82	41	16/36	3	40,600
11-28	65	30	12/40	2	38,300
11-29	57	25	23/52	3	36,300
11-30	92	35	37/51	4	34,300
12-01	116	36	33/39	15	32,200
12-02	101	38	23/39	0	29,900
12-03	123	44	33/45	10	28,000
12-04	84	31	30/47	6	26,400
12-05	94	36	19/48	16	25,800
12-06	81	31	21/55	6	25,300
12-07	117	32	42/66	15	25,100
12-08	45	30	34/59	0	24,800
12-09	86	38	33/46	15	24,100
12-10	66	42	23/46	5	23,900
12-11	28	28	26/51	5	23,700
12-12	26	29	24/41	9	23,400
12-13	19	17	26/47	5	22,900
12-14	39	28	24/57	1	22,100
12-15	62	25	41/52	1	21,700
12-16	83	47	38/45	14	21,600
12-17	21	40	30/50	7	21,600
12-18	33	30	20/38	15	21,800
12-19	27	20	20/52	13	21,800
12-20	35	20	35/53	9	21,700
12-21	28	32	50/58	7	21,600
12-22	38	24	44/56	5	21,500
12-23	31	27	39/57	6	21,300
12-24	49	21	40/59	14	21,400
12-26	88	40	30/35	14	22,800

* Posted more than once for this day, or no hunter count. Shown as posted, left out of totals.

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.