Two Tennessee State Fair grand champion hams sold Monday at a Future Farmers of America breakfast held at the State Fair in Nashville have given a new meaning to eating high on the hog. 

The hams, sold at auction, were purchased for $4,200 each or for a little more than $200 per pound. 

The first winning bid for what is described as a Country Style Trim Ham was placed by Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee, Farm Bureau Health Plans and the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation. The ham was entered in the State Fair competition by David Key of Cross Plains. 

The second ham, purchased also for $4,200, was a Packing House Trim Style Ham and was sold to the Wilson County Fair and Wilson Bank and Trust. 

Scott Dabbs of Mt. Juliet, son-in-law of Ed Rice, the longtime country ham curing artist and multiple State Fair grand champion winner, entered the ham in the State Fair competition. 

The breakfast hosted by the FFA and attended by more than 400 community and business leaders from across the state was an inaugural event for the State Fair. 

Proceeds from the $25 per plate breakfast and the two hams that were auctioned are to be contributed to the FFA Foundation to help fund a number of programs that serve the organization's youth membership, according to event organizer Chelsea Rose, Tennessee FFA Foundation executive director. 

Joe Scarlett, the retired chairman and CEO of the Tractor Supply Company, was the keynote speaker for the breakfast. 

Major sponsors of the event were Clifty Farms, Kroger's, the Tennessee State Fair and Tosh Farms.