IREDELL COUNTY -- Iredell County farmers seem to have a pest problem.
For the past several years farmers say someone has been joy riding through their fields, destroying crops.
Charles Pierce is a third-generation farmer.
"There's nothing like it to me. I love it, sure do," said Pierce.
He hangs his hat in Mooresville, but has fields across Iredell County. But Pierce says he's got a pest problem.
"So I don't know what we need to do around here but something needs to be addressed, not just at my place, all over the place in the whole county!"
His 25 acres on Parkertown Road are torn up and his planted rye, destroyed, by someone taking a joy ride.
"Somebody been just driving around in it just spinning just spinning and spinning," said Pierce. "Just rutting it up with a vehicle!"
It's not just costing farmers their crops, it's doubling their labor.
"You go out there and you got ruts in it and every time your wheels on your tractor go across it, you bumping them."
Pierce added, it's an old headache.
"Oh it's been happening every year! Been going on for three years! I've had Iredell County up there at least eight times, at least!"
The field sits far away from any watchful eye.
"Oh yeah, I've asked several people, but that's the trouble, half a mile there nobody lives right there!"
And a fence is out of the question.
"A half a mile long? It's a half a mile road frontage on that property, I guess I could put up one but it would be a lot of money and a lot of time to do it," he said.
Pierce said he has his suspicions.
"I think young kids, that's what I think. I mean I was young once, but I never did anything like that! My daddy would put me in rehab!"
So he hope the vandals will just give it up. The Iredell County Sheriff's Office is investigating the latest property damage on Parkertown Road.
If you have any information which could help Charles Pierce and the police, please call Crime Stoppers at 704- 662-1340.