Urbana -- There is bad news and good news for soil erosion trends in Illinois. The bad news is that the percentage of Illinois land with acceptable levels of soil erosion did not go up in 2006 and has been virtually unchanged since 1997. In 2006, 85.8 percent of the state?s cropland had acceptable levels of soil erosion.<br><br><a href='http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news3831.html' target='_blank'>http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news3831.html</a><br><br>