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Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
PIERRE — Scaffolding stood in the center of South Dakota’s Capitol building for six months, but now the work is done and the reviews are coming in. Pierre resident Mary Keeler, who works for the state Bureau of Finance and Management, stood looking up into the dome recently while admiring the restoration work. “It has
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for…
As the Army Corps of Engineers prepares to host an open house about its study of Lower Big Sioux River flood risks, I’m reminded of a comment then-Gov. Kristi Noem made two years ago after the river overwhelmed McCook Lake. “I don’t believe anybody could’ve ever prepared for the amount of water that came down
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected…
Bears are having a very bad year. Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food. From California to Connecticut…
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the…
WASHINGTON — A couple hundred people carrying decorated umbrellas walked from the former Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to the U.S. Capitol lawn Saturday for a No Kings get-out-the-vote event in the nation’s capital. No Kings, a coalition that has drawn millions of Americans to protests three times…
Nearly 32,000 South Dakotans have already voted in advance of the Nov. 3 general election, and supporters of the No Kings movement want to push that number higher. The fourth round of nationwide day-long No Kings demonstrations was Saturday. Eight were held in South Dakota, including the state’s largest city of Sioux…
South Dakota has spent decades convincing out-of-staters to come here and hunt pheasants. Tourism campaigns market pheasant hunting as a bucket-list experience, especially during the opening of the season, which is this weekend. Later this month, elected officials, business leaders and invited guests will gather for…
Matt Althoff has stepped down as secretary of the South Dakota Department of Social Services, effective immediately, Gov. Larry Rhoden’s office said Friday while also announcing an interim replacement. Althoff has led the department since his appointment by former Gov. Kristi Noem in 2023. The department oversees the…
The candidates for U.S. Senate in South Dakota’s Nov. 3 election have divergent views on the influence of money in their race. Independent candidate Brian Bengs said voters of all political stripes want campaign finance reform, which will be his “single biggest policy goal” if he’s elected. “Everybody wants a lot of…
The Nov. 3 general election could be an independents’ day of sorts for South Dakota. In addition to independent Brian Bengs challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, the state’s legislative contests include 11 independent candidates — the highest number in recent memory. At least one of those…
After the U.S. Department of Justice sued California over its refusal to remove voters the federal government alleges are noncitizens, voting rights advocates fear the Trump administration is violating a court order blocking it from rooting out noncitizens with states’ voter data. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a flurry of travel on deck in the final frantic weeks leading up to the end of the midterm elections, in which the GOP is vying to maintain its control of both the U.S. House and Senate. But that outlook looks increasingly less favorable for Republicans, as analysts say
WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected…
A supporter of a state constitutional amendment on South Dakota’s Nov. 3 ballot says it would close a loophole in voting eligibility, while an opponent says it engages in “fearmongering.” The state constitution already affirms the right of U.S. citizens to vote. Amendment J, one of four questions on the ballot, asks…
There’s something unclear about Constitutional Amendment I, a question on the Nov. 3 ballot that would change South Dakota’s Medicaid expansion program. Medicaid expansion covers healthcare costs for South Dakotans making less than $22,000 a year. The federal government covers 90% of the cost. The state covers the…
Nikki Gronli would love to have her old job back. During a debate earlier this month with Attorney General Marty Jackley, her Republican opponent in the race for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Democratic former South Dakota director of rural development for the U.S. Department of…
The Trump administration sought a federal court order Thursday to force California to purge 20,000 people from its voter rolls over claims they are not U.S. citizens, a major development less than three weeks before the midterm elections. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state, asking a judge to validate its…
A South Dakota board voted Thursday to keep a critical needs scholarship open to all prospective K-12 teachers while prioritizing special education and language arts. Demand for special education teachers is expected to grow over the next decade, creating a need that outpaces other teaching positions in the state…
WASHINGTON —Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog. Top Republican and Democratic senators have unveiled a 417-page bill to overhaul the approval process, a pathway for what’s known as “permitting reform.” A debate is likely when…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might…
South Dakota has received more than $1 billion worth of unclaimed property over the years from an array of sources, including cash, insurance policy proceeds and even gold teeth. Amendment K, a question on the Nov. 3 ballot, asks voters to allow the state Investment Council to manage a trust fund consisting of…
A federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling blocking the Trump administration from moving the U.S. Forest Service’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City while the rest of the lawsuit over the relocation plays out in court. In the order signed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, in…
Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to an Oct. 14 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. In the last consumer price inflation report before midterm elections, with voters already fed up with higher prices, September’s number was the highest since May, when it…
In the Nov. 3 election, South Dakota voters are considering four proposed amendments to the state’s constitution, all placed on the ballot by the Legislature. One of the questions, Amendment I, would repeal the expanded Medicaid eligibility requirement in the state constitution if the federal government’s share of…
WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to…
The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding California not count ballots from voters it says are suspected noncitizens, a move by the Trump administration to apply last-minute pressure as voting begins in the midterm elections. The Justice Department on Tuesday gave California election officials 48 hours to remove…
South Dakota voters are selecting a new person to oversee elections in the state, with a choice between a candidate who has supported hand-counting and the elimination of vote tabulation machines, or candidates who say they want to support an election system that’s working well. Republican Heather Baxter, Democrat…
A long-awaited federal grant has come through for the only fair housing organization in the Dakotas, resolving a monthslong funding gap that led the group to furlough half of its staff. The Grand Forks-based High Plains Fair Housing Center had been waiting on the $425,000 final installment of a three-year Fair Housing…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection need to improve oversight and guidance for federal immigration officers’ use of body-worn cameras, according to a Wednesday report from independent federal investigators. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security…
A nonprofit legal organization focused on Native American rights is sending legal volunteers to observe polling places in South Dakota and six other states with sizable Native American populations. The Native American Rights Fund will send nearly 300 attorneys, law students and volunteers to polling places for the…
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge late Tuesday extended a block on a Trump administration ban of press passes for three news organizations, which will allow them to continue to enter the White House grounds while a legal challenge to the ban, including a Wednesday appeal filed by the administration, plays out. U.S…
A question on South Dakotans’ ballots in the Nov. 3 election pits two philosophies against each other: One says it’s too easy to clutter up the state’s constitution with policies that don’t belong there, and the other says voters need the power to amend the constitution with a majority vote when lawmakers fail to adopt
Farmers and biofuel producers in Iowa are celebrating a proposal from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to reallocate renewable fuel requirements from which small refineries received an exemption. The move ensures that renewable fuel blending standards set by the EPA are maintained after…
Julian Winchester didn’t know he was one of South Dakota’s nearly 6,000 federal-only voters, let alone what that means, until South Dakota Searchlight found his name on the list and called him this month. The Lake Area Technical College student registered through a voter registration drive on the Watertown campus this…
PIERRE — Supporters of South Dakota’s medical marijuana industry clashed with a state oversight committee Tuesday about speakers invited to address the group. The Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee is led by state lawmakers and also includes representatives of healthcare professions, a medical marijuana patient and…
The South Dakota Housing Development Authority is starting a temporary program to give down-payment assistance to homebuyers. The authority will launch its Give Me Five program on Nov. 2, lending qualifying homebuyers a down payment equal to 5% of their mortgage. Recipients are not required to make payments on the…
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states…
Thirty-four South Dakota organizations and businesses have asked Gov. Larry Rhoden to support a program that offers debit cards for food to low-income families during the summer months. The program is federally funded, but is administered by states. The governor’s deputy secretary of education told South Dakota…
WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics. Fifty-two middle school students hailing from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American Samoa, will compete at the…
South Dakota’s Board of Economic Development voted Tuesday to authorize up to $6.1 million in tax rebates for the state’s largest wind energy project. The $750 million, 333-megawatt wind farm will span about 110 square miles of private land, located north of Philip and 85 miles east of Rapid City. State regulators…
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers. Automakers and construction contractors say they need more access to workers through accelerated training, steady immigration and a cultural shift…
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S…
Three independent U.S. Senate candidates from Great Plains states said Monday they will not caucus with Republicans or Democrats if elected, while the National Republican Senatorial Committee accused them of being Democrats in disguise. Brian Bengs of South Dakota, Seth Bodnar of Montana and Dan Osborn of Nebraska…
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the U.S. House condemned a “deeply disturbing” raid early Monday at the District of Columbia home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who has long been a target of verbal attacks by President Donald Trump and Republicans. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Democratic…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week will journey out West in an effort to galvanize support for Republican candidates three weeks before the midterm elections and convince voters to support his party amid low presidential approval ratings. As the deeply unpopular war in Iran enters month eight, resulting in…
A North Dakota judge ruled Friday that state rules on where infrastructure such as pipelines can be built do not automatically trump local zoning ordinances. The ruling comes from a case in which a group of landowners and Emmons and Burleigh counties sued the Public Service Commission and pipeline developer Summit…
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday filed a new lawsuit to try to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline, continuing a decadelong battle over the project. The tribe filed the case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous…
A former Cornell University student’s allegations of gang rape in 2024 have renewed attention on a difficult area of sexual assault law. A person can be awake, responsive and even able to move during a sexual encounter while still being so intoxicated or impaired that they cannot understand what is happening or make…
Reports of deer deaths from a viral disease have spiked as hunters take to the fields in South Dakota, and state wildlife officials are reducing some hunting opportunities and offering hunting-license refunds to protect deer numbers. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease is a viral illness spread by tiny biting midges…
Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism. A weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed…
Sometimes voting in South Dakota can seem like a lost cause. With Republicans dominating every state and national elected office, it seems like a foregone conclusion that they will win again. It’s easy to make excuses for sitting out this election. Part of the problem is the less than stellar job that members of the
President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to leave open the possibility that the federal government won’t livestream a military execution planned for December that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said would be public. But Trump also told reporters at the White House that he had “absolutely” approved livestreaming…
On Friday morning, the prediction market platform Kalshi gave the Democratic candidate in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race an 87% chance of winning. The volume of trading on the outcome exceeded $1.8 million. This is exactly the type of activity Minnesota and numerous other states want to shut down. “They jeopardize…
DELL RAPIDS — In a coffee shop on his hometown’s main thoroughfare, Dan Ahlers thinks back on his first run for elected office 20 years ago. There was a different Democrat running who needed to drop out, local party leaders said, and they wanted Ahlers as a replacement. “‘Don’t worry, it won’t be a big
As further complications arose Thursday around actions meant to ease the burden of high diesel prices, the South Dakota Farmers Union asked the governor and state lawmakers to call a special legislative session to approve a state fuel tax holiday. “The governor says this all the time, that agriculture is king, and you…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge will rule in the coming days on whether the Trump administration can legally rescind White House press passes for journalists at three news organizations, or if those reporters will be able to continue accessing the grounds while the case continues. U.S. District Judge for the District of…
WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional districts, and tariffs were on her mind as she voted early and in-person in Suffolk, Virginia in late September. The 44-year-old trained social worker said she and her husband, who recently retired after 25 years in the U.S…
A South Dakota state senator was cited for driving under the influence this week, marking the third time criminal charges for a state lawmaker have come to light in the space of four months. Leola Republican Mark Lapka, 45, was cited for driving under the influence between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said late Wednesday that it expects to complete its long-awaited safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by March 2027. The agency disclosed the information in a court-mandated status report it submitted in the federal lawsuit…
BROOKINGS — Farmers could reduce their reliance on groundwater, help mitigate downstream flooding and improve crop yields during droughts by storing their drainage water in a pond or wetland, according to a speaker at the Eastern South Dakota Water Conference. Chuck Brandel is a drainage expert with ISG, an…
WASHINGTON — Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Parents must claim the accounts by downloading a Trump Account mobile app. Children born from 2025 through 2028…
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by…
South Dakotans in two counties will decide in the Nov. 3 election whether to implement a county sales tax for homeowner property tax reduction, while residents in two other counties will vote in special elections later in November. State lawmakers and the governor gave counties the authority during this year’s…
As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound or wait before they can get abortion pills. Under its current guidelines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does…
President Donald Trump is allowing broader use of a federally tax-exempt fuel that powers farm equipment, in an attempt to ease the burden of rising diesel prices. But some farmers are hesitant to accept the help. The fuel is red-dyed diesel, which is legally limited to use in offroad machinery. The action by Trump has
WASHINGTON — The number of women in the U.S. Senate is unlikely to increase and may decline following the November midterm elections, though there are still opportunities for candidates to make history in the upper chamber. Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics, said on a…
As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out taking extreme action in the midterm elections, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders are bolstering their voter protection efforts in anticipation of possible federal interference. The focus by activists comes amid uncertainty among advocates and election…
When I meet someone new and they find out that I’m retired, it’s only natural for them to ask what I did for a living before I entered this life of leisure. It’s with a certain amount of pride that I tell them that I was a daily newspaper editor. Hearing that bit of news,
President Donald Trump wants to sharply curtail mail ballots. He’s called them “inherently corrupt” and baselessly condemned them as a major source of fraud. But with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, including by…
The South Dakota National Guard has helped process 1,013 deportations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 2025. Gov. Larry Rhoden’s office included the figure on Monday in a news release announcing his decision to extend his order for cooperation with ICE in paperwork processing, a task assigned to…
Citizen observers could play an especially important role in the Nov. 3 general election, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota. “They are a deterrent against bad behavior,” said Samantha Chapman, the organization’s advocacy manager. The group plans to deploy trained, volunteer observers in…
Archaeologists recently removed seven coffins containing human remains and an unknown wooden box from a construction site near the North Dakota governor’s residence, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The archaeologists explored more than 80 areas of interest in September after human remains were…
A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months. At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the handful…
South Dakota’s recently opened women’s prison in Rapid City held 79 women at the end of September, the first month the state began to move them there from the women’s prison campus in Pierre. Overcrowding in the buildings at the older women’s prison spurred the construction of the $87 million Rapid City complex. For…
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city where roughly 14% of residents are foreign-born, quickly sued. “Every day we find new things to be…
Since South Dakota’s Republican lame-duck Secretary of State Monae Johnson oddly endorsed the Democrat campaigning to replace her, voters reasonably might wonder: Is she for real? Even though she has been viewed at times during her tenure as just politically eccentric and confounding, this partisan betrayal was a core…
Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong August number that was revised down from 162,000 to 133,000 in the new report…
WASHINGTON — A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors cannot, for a second time, charge former Olympic canoeist David Hearn with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd E. Edelman wrote in his ruling that “the observed damage to the Reflecting Pool was due to a contractor’s ‘rushed…
The backers of a South Dakota ballot measure that would make it harder to change the state constitution accused their opponents this week of misleading voters with campaign ads tying the measure to “out-of-state billionaires.” The spokesperson for the opposition called the allegations “comical.” The ads are a nod to…
An appeals court shut down an attempt from South Dakota’s attorney general and governor to overturn a decision that blocks enforcement of a law that criminalizes abortion pill advertising in the state. Gov. Larry Rhoden and Attorney General Marty Jackley, both Republicans, filed the appeal in August after a lower…
WASHINGTON — This summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office. An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through collaborations known as 287(g) agreements helped…
The two candidates for South Dakota governor recently met for a final debate before the Nov. 3 general election, hosted by South Dakota Public Broadcasting and South Dakota News Watch. In this episode of Searchlight Report, host Meghan O’Brien recaps the debate, including disagreements on data center laws, school…
SIOUX FALLS — During a Thursday night debate, the Republican candidate in the race for South Dakota’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives joined a chorus of his party’s members in criticizing President Donald Trump’s approach on beef imports. Republican Attorney General Marty Jackley faces Democrat Nikki…
A South Dakota group suffered a setback Thursday in its effort to protect adequate time for petitioning questions onto statewide ballots, as a federal appeals court vacated an earlier ruling in the group’s favor and set a new hearing for next year. In August, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of…
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled this week that a father doesn’t have a right to obtain investigation records he wanted about his son’s death. Ryan Pyle, age 37, went missing in August 2020, and his remains were found in November of that year near the Snake Creek Recreation Area in South Dakota, near the
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Keith Sonderling as secretary of Labor on Wednesday, marking one of the few Trump administration picks to get through the upper chamber recently after a North Dakota senator put a hold on “any and all” nominees. But the Senate left town late Wednesday for its weeks-long…
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators departed Capitol Hill on Wednesday night for their campaign break, leaving numerous policy disputes unresolved. The chamber won’t return until Nov. 9 for the five-week lame-duck session, when party leaders will have to decide which bills they want to negotiate during what could be the final…
President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with strong Republican leanings. The first events in the closing stretch of the midterm election campaign suggest his strength with swing voters is limited, as…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released new guidance Thursday for participating states, scholarship-granting organizations and taxpayers as the federal scholarship tax credit program prepares to take effect in January. Created through President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law in 2025, the Education…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans did not gain any support Wednesday from Democrats as they attempted to advance a bill that mashed together two hot-button midterm issues: requiring voter ID in federal elections and limiting stock trading for members of Congress. The Republican-led bill, titled the Stop Insider…
Eastern South Dakota could soon host the largest transmission project in the state’s history. South Dakota’s first 765-kilovolt line would run through Grant, Deuel and Brookings counties. The larger story is what could follow it. South Dakota’s largest existing transmission lines operate at 345 kilovolts. The proposed…
South Dakota Democratic U.S. House nominee Nikki Gronli announced her top economic priorities Wednesday, including a return to tariff policies predating President Donald Trump, capping insulin costs, giving Medicare more drug-price bargaining power, and requiring higher-income people to contribute more toward Social…
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting the administration’s effort to keep election security a top issue, in line with President Donald Trump’s longstanding unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The indictments…
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years. But those who wanted the Hyde Amendment included won the battle in the end. Three
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. The Trump administration recently moved the funds into a U.S. Customs and…
South Dakota’s Republican governor issued an executive order to blunt the impact of high diesel prices for farmers during harvest season, but an agricultural leader in the state said the order “doesn’t do anything” to help. Gov. Larry Rhoden’s order allows producers to haul crops, livestock and other agricultural…