It is all the equipment, staff, storage and time we can muster. During Christmas alone last year we sold 44,000 two-pound cheddar blocks and 54,000 Edam balls. There are also several other kinds of cheese we produce. To reserve MSU cheese for this Easter or Christmas, people should mark their calendars to submit the orders by April 1 and Nov. 1, respectively. Day after day, year after year, we have been making Edam cheese since the '40s.
Alumni are the most influential in our success, but it is branching out.
We ship cheese to every state in the country each year. We even receive international orders, but because of the timing factor, it is not usually possible. In 1938, F.H. Herzer, professor and department head of the animal and dairy science department at Mississippi State College announced his idea of manufacturing Edam cheese. I doubt that Dr. Herzer would be surprised to see the success of the program. He really had high standards for this undertaking.