Going global, a rich patch of grass and daffodils.

Past their prime the greyhounds abandoned because they can no longer race The welsh school happy to lose it's playing field the rider who got on a horse five years ago - and is now an olympic hopeful and why welsh daffodils are slow to raise their heads this year

Last updated: 28 February 2010

Country Focus - Sunday 28th February at 07.30am presented by Melanie Doel

Three farmers from Wales are to take their farming expertise overseas after being selected as winners of the 2010 Nuffield Farming Scholarship Award. We speak to one of them - Tony Davies of Elan Valley Mutton.

What's growing in your lawn? We hear how the playing field of Tycroes primary school, in Carmarthenshire was considered to be such a special habitat that it's been moved, in pieces to the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

The Greyhound Welfare Advisory Board is calling on the Assembly Government to do more to protect racing greyhounds. The campaigners say many of the dogs are abandoned or killed when they're no longer able to win races. The Government says it's fully committed to protecting the welfare of animals.

We meet the para-equestrian dressage rider from Wrexham who got on a horse for the first time just five years ago and has gone from being a "start "rider up to the potential para-equestrian dressage programme. It means that twenty year old, Natalie Povey, who has cerebral palsy, could realise her dreams of getting to the 2012 London Paralympics.

And in time for St David's Day we look at how daffodils and leeks have been fairing with the recent cold weather - will they bloom for March 1st?