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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaking in the White House briefing room in Washington. The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased over the past five years, a new government census of America's agriculture says. Also, farmers are getting older _ the average age was 58.3 years. But Vilsack points to a bright spot: a small rise in the number of farmers between 25 and 34 years old. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The White House says President Barack Obama's upcoming budget proposal will not include his past offer to accept lowered cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs. Those had been a central component of his long-term debt-reduction strategy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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CORRECTS TO JUSTIN PIERCE-Republican Rep. Justin Pierce argues in favor of a bill that Republicans say just confirms religious rights. on the House Floor in Phoenix on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. House Bill 2153, written by the conservative advocacy group Center for Arizona Policy and the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, would allow individuals to use religious beliefs as a defense in a lawsuit filed by another individual. (AP Photo / The Arizona Republic, Michael Schennum)
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Republican Eddie Farnsworth speaks in support of the bill backed by Republicans that expands the rights of people to assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays and others at the Arizona State Capitol on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Stacie Scott)
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Members of the House Agricultural Affairs Committee listen as dairy owner Terry Jones of Emmett, Idaho, speaks out in favor of the industry's bill seeking to punish animal rights activists who secretly film abuse during a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 in Boise. The bill is a response to activists who in 2012 captured workers at a southern Idaho dairy beating and stomping on cows, then sought to use the resulting film to convince the dairy's customers to quit buying its products. (AP Photo/John Miller)
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Idaho State Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, listens as dairy owner Steve Ballard speaks in favor of the industry's bill seeking to punish animal rights activists who secretly film abuse during a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 in Boise. The bill is a response to activists who in 2012 captured workers at a southern Idaho dairy beating and stomping on cows, then sought to use the resulting film to convince the dairy's customers to quit buying its products. (AP Photo/John Miller)
