Number of feet of fungi in a teaspoon of tilled agricultural soil:  30

Number of feet of fungi in a teaspoon of coniferous forest soil:  52,800

Increase in range over which a plant can absorb nutrients
by partnering with symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi:  400x

Multiplication of microbes during compost tea brewing process:  50,000x

Number of flocculation-inducing cations present
in Jerry Cunningham’s fields:  Unknown

2012 worldwide assets invested in mutual funds:  $23.8 trillion

2012 U.S. retail investors’ holdings of alternative investments:  $712 billion

2012 U.S. venture capital assets under management:  $200 billion

2012 market value of farmland in Iowa:  $310 billion

2012 farmland acreage in Iowa:  30.8 million

2012 organic farmland acreage in Iowa:  81,634

Estimated total earthworm population on conventional farmland in Iowa:  583 billion 

Estimated total earthworm population on organic farmland in Iowa: 123 billion

2011 venture capital investments in Iowa:  $28.4 million

2011 venture capital investments in Iowa per earthworm:  $0.00004