With the Royal Family having links to the likes of Sandringham and Balmoral, King Charles has been a passionate advocate of sustainable farming.
I was heading away from the Westmorland Show field with my second load of cattle, about to cross over the canal bridge and back onto the main road.
The songs on the radio had been fairly sombre, when all of a sudden the voice said: "We are interrupting our schedules for the following announcement, Buckingham Palace has announced the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon."
I wanted to shout out of the window to tell the chap in the hi-vis jacket directing traffic, but it did not seem appropriate. Instead, I just kept quiet and listened to the remainder of the broadcast as I drove back to Strickley.
The Royal Family have, of course, always been true supporters of British farming, especially family farms, which are the backbone of the country.
I have been lucky enough to meet King Charles III on two separate occasions on his visits up to Cumbria. The first was when he came to Westmorland Show in 2017 and His Royal Highness enjoyed a full tour of the show, chatting with hundreds of exhibitors and visitors.
He walked through the cattle tent and spoke to us about our Dairy Shorthorn cattle. For those that dont know, Princess Anne is the patron of the Shorthorn Society and Dad reminded him of this and tried to persuade him to try some on his own farm, rather than those Ayrshire things.
The second time was in April this year when my dad and I were invited with fellow Cumbrian farmers to meet him and talk about our farms. He is a keen advocate for nature friendly farming and is also an expert on hedge laying, both things close to my own heart.
His knowledge of the issues affecting the industry and his passion for keeping family farms sustainable is incredibly impressive and we are very lucky to have him to continue in the fine way that the Royal Family have always done.
The only time I ever saw The Queen was when she visited Kendal to open a new Territorial Army centre, while I was still at primary school. We all lined the road between Oxenholme railway station and town and furiously waved our little plastic union flags as her maroon Rolls Royce drove past.
Other than that, I have not any real personal story, no palace tea party or gala dinner, but it seems almost inconceivable to imagine our country without The Queen. She has always been there for us, never failing to say the right thing in times of national grief or being there just when we needed a voice of comfort.
She quite literally devoted her entire life to the service of our nation and was the rock on which modern Britain was built, our strength and stay, and for that we are all eternally grateful. May she now rest in peace alongside her own beloved strength and stay, Prince Philip.
