Sixty sausages disappeared in the blink of an eye this morning (Thursday) at the YFC intergalactic sausage eating competition.

The meat eating marathon pitted teams from Wales' two biggest farming unions, the NFU and FUW, against a young farmers' team and a group from the Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society, including show president, John Lewis.

Members of each team of three had to eat five sausages as quickly as possible. Empty plates and mouths were required to convince the judges that the bangers, provided by Bethesda meats, had been consumed.

A good crowd was drawn to the event, attracted by Will Pritchard's skills as a compère.

The YFC team consisted of pancake eating champion Tanya Hancock who had accidentally eaten breakfast but was still willing to apply her pancake guzzling know how to the sausage challenge.

Tanya and team, however, were out munched by the boys from FUW who wolfed down their plates of bangers in a matter of minutes.

A thirsty Dai Miles, Meurig Harries and Robert Voyle from the FUW team said that they didn't have a specific tactic but had drawn on their life experience to win the challenge.

“We are all busy farmers,” said Robert, “We are all used to always rushing breakfast.”