Gary Clark Good Quotations

Nobody felt good about the way it ended. But the reality is we all believe we can be competitive at the top of the conference; that's the goal, and we think it's pretty close.

The task force is closely monitoring the situation as we head into the planting season. While March has provided us with a good amount of rain, conditions are still at a critical stage. The message has to go out to western, northern and central Illinois that we're not out of the woods yet. We could get a month or two of recovery, then be back at it.

There's a lot of worry. We have seen some improvement over the winter, but soil moisture is nowhere near where it ought to be. Things are not shaping up for a good year at all.