MPR News photos of the week
Auctioneer Dan Pike pulls his sign from farmland he sold an hour earlier for $5,900 an acre in southwest Minnesota. Pike said he expects to sell more farms in the coming months because land prices and demand are strong.
MPR Photo/Mark Steil
Though politics, including the inauguration of Gov. Mark Dayton, dominated the news this week, a spike in farm prices and the evacuation of St. Cloud's City Hall got our attention too.
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