By JOHN WORTHEN

El Dorado News-Times

A recently commissioned feasibility study designed to help Union County poultry growers find a buyer for future flocks is just about complete, and the early results are giving hope to those whose lives and finances were crushed last year when Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. closed their Union County operations.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, played a key role in commissioning the study, which is being funded by the Delta Regional Authority and the State of A...