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Troxler: Don't fence me out
Long before he had ambitions of becoming the state’s agriculture commissioner, Steve Troxler worked the earth on a nearby property owned by a relative.
"I've been farming it since 1970 or '71," Troxler said.
But in 2003, a fence went up across his best access point to the property, a gap in the woods at the end of Old Berkshire Road in Browns Summit.
"The only other way in is across a pond dam," Troxler said. That route won't accommodate the heavy equipment needed to sow and harvest crops such as soybeans, tobacco or wheat.
A lawsuit filed in Guilford County Superior Court by Troxler and Enid Dula, whom Troxler said was a second or third cousin, alleges that the homeowners association for the Moss Creek subdivision put up the fence illegally.
"The lawsuit ends as soon as the fence comes down," Troxler said.
Attempts to reach managers and leaders of the homeowners association were unsuccessful Wednesday and Thursday.
The suit asks for damages "in an amount to exceed $10,000" and that the Moss Creek homeowners be forced to take down the fence.
When asked whether he thought it odd that the state’s agriculture commissioner could be denied access to a field he works, Troxler shrugged off the situation.
"Sometimes you run into odd things like this in farming," he said. "It just happens."
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