<span>As of 2016, farm and ranch families made up only two percent of the total US population. The amount of farmer and ranching families has declined at a fast pace since it's peak in 1935. In the last twenty years most of the decline can be blamed on how little farmers and ranchers make from the food they grow or raise. Farmers and ranchers only receive, on average, sixteen cents for every dollar that is spent on food in both grocery stores, down from about thirty-one cents for every dollar in the 1980's.</span>
Su geografía física es en gran parte montañosa. Posee suaves playas en su litoral del Pacífico y planicies bajas al norte del país. Es atravesada en su parte central por la cordillera de los Cuchumatanes y parte de la sierra Madre del Sur.
