Topics covered by undergraduate agricultural economics courses often overlap with Extension educational needs. This paper describes an undergraduate class project that involved students in producing an Extension report. The project was designed as a collaboration between undergraduate instructors and Extension economists. The instructors targeted a set of concepts and skills for the students to practice, and the Extension economists advised the instructors on a particular issue using those skills relevant to local agriculture. This process resulted in analyzing the potential to cross-hedge peanuts with futures contracts from different commodities. Students were introduced to peanut marketing, cross-hedging, regression analysis, and how to write an Extension publication. In groups, students analyzed data and wrote a report. Group reports were evaluated by Extension economists, and one project was chosen to be published as a peer-reviewed Extension publication.

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