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... Despite green-up, caution urged before jumping into pastures home::news::sports::calendar::obituaries::opinion::automotive::voice of the reader::classifieds::about us::subscribe::community links News Despite green-up, caution urged before jumping into pastures by MARK ARNOLD Special to the Daily Light Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:16 PM CST Grazing too early this year could perform the coup de grace, further damaging already stressed Bermuda grass pastures, said a Texas Cooperative Extension expert.Beset by drought and wildfires, north central Texas producers may be tempted to turn cattle into their bunch grasses or coastal and other improved varieties of Bermuda grass as they green up from recent rains.But don’t “jump into pastures” just yet, said Dr.

Yoana Newman, Extension forage specialist based at the Texas A&M University System Agriculture Research and Extension Center at Stephenville.“Just because they green up, doesn’t mean pastures have recovered,” she said.

“The green color is accentuated by the dark color of the burnt or bare ground giving the impression that there is more herbage than there actually is.

Whether they have bunch grasses or sod-forming coastal or Tifton 85, they need to allow more time to ensure restoration of the sugar reserves that foster growth before the animals graze the pasture again.”Though Bermuda grass pastures should recover with proper management, they have been severely stressed.

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How accurate are they?

No test is an infallible predictor of behavior, says Paul Sackett, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota who has studied the tests for 25 years.

But standards have improved vastly over the past decade, thanks to the emergence of a uniform language involving five main types of behavior.

The testing industry remains largely unregulated, however.

"There's still a Wild West of unsupported, unproven tests out there," says Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing.

Can you game a personality test?

Yes, say books and websites that purport to tell you how.

Applicants often try to answer questions to make themselves look attractive.

But tests have got better at fingering the liars, mainly by arranging questions to indicate a pattern-"a lie scale, if you will," says Sackett.

Dinah Daniels, CEO of testing company PI Worldwide, says built-in alarms go off when an applicant is faking.

Says Sackett: "My advice is to take the test at face value and describe yourself clearly and honestly.

If you fit the job, great.

If you don't, maybe it wasn't for you." TESTING, TESTING Page 1 of 2 1 | 2 Next From the Apr.

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