The MAFES Sales Store is located in the glass annex at the front of the Herzer Food Science Building at 925 Stone Boulevard, Mississippi State University campus, Starkville, Mississippi, about 300 yards south of Scott Field. Reserved parking for store customers is south of the Herzer Building, between Herzer and Ballew Hall. Click here to locate us on campus.
The MAFES Sales Store is open from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.(central time) Monday through Friday. We are open during the noon hour. The store is closed during regular university holidays except the week of spring break. We will be open on days when football games are played on the campus. Please see our holiday schedule for game day store hours.Though we ship only from November through April, we sell cheese over the counter in the retail store year round. The store is open from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Customers may purchase cheese and other products without having an order during most of the year. However, customers who want to have cheese for Thanksgiving, Hanukah, or Christmas should place an order before October 15. While we will take orders for available products through December 1, we will begin to sell out of some products early. In January, the store will have cheese that was made in September available for sale, and we will resume shipping.
Dr. Joe Thomas Cardwell is a well-loved and respected former professor and interim department head who taught courses at MSU in the field of dairy foods, including courses in making Edam and Cheddar cheese, as well as courses in food chemistry. Dr. Cardwell had more than one hundred publications in official journals, served as a major professor or was on the committees of 150 MS or Ph.D. candidates, served as an official USDA dairy products grader, and earned a variety of honors during his distinguished career. He was a member of the faculty from 1952 to 1990 and after his retirement continued to serve the university by voluntarily conducting tours of MSU’s Dairy Manufacturing Plant.
Cheese may be damaged by heat during transit time. Vallagret cheese is
shipped only from November through January because it is particularly
susceptible to heat damage.
Edam is our most popular cheese, closely followed by Cheddar.
Cheese must be stored under refrigeration at temperatures of 45º F or below but not below freezing. Keep the cheese tightly wrapped in plastic wrap or an air-tight zip lock bag. Cheese will travel well in an air-conditioned vehicle but should not be left in a parked vehicle during hot weather.
Freezing the cheese is not recommended because the cheese will become
extremely crumbly after having been frozen. If you do freeze the cheese,
thaw (in the refrigerator) only the portion that you will be using
immediately. Grated cheese can be frozen to be used in casseroles.
Please refer to our order information for cheese prices and shipping costs..
Edam (3 pound) has a 17 inch circumference and approximately a 5.4 inch diameter.
Cheddar (2 pound) is 5.5 inches long, 3.5 inches wide, and 2.75 inches deep.
Vallagret (2 pound) is 5 inches across (diameter), 1.88 (1 7/8) inches tall, and 17.5 inches around.
The 3-pound Edam ball makes 232 cubes.
The 2-pound Cheddar, Pepper, and Vallagret each make 141 cubes.
The 3-pound Edam has 48 servings.
The 2-pound Cheddar, Pepper, and Vallagret each have 32 servings.
Yes. You can send gifts to as many different addresses as you would like. Include a shipping date and a gift message for each gift when you place your order.
We use UPS ground service for most deliveries in the forty-eight contiguous states. Deliveries to post office boxes, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, APOs and FPOs are shipped through the United States Postal Service either by Priority Mail or Express Mail to expedite delivery.
We do not ship cheese to foreign countries except Canada because of the shipping costs and because of import restrictions.
We need to receive your order by December 1 to guarantee Christmas delivery. We accept orders after December 1, but we cannot guarantee that the products will arrive by Christmas. We do ship cheese from January through April, as well. Because we state that we accept orders through December 1, does not guarantee that we can accept all orders sent to us by that date. We will begin to sell out of some products in October; therefore, we recommend that you send us your holiday orders early.
All MSU cheese is aged for at least ninety days. Aging makes the cheese sharper and more flavorful.
No. MSU cheese is made with frozen cultures.
Vallagret was developed several years ago by an MSU graduate student
in the Food Science and Technology Department. Vallagret is a Norwegian
type of Swiss cheese. It is not as sharp as Swiss and has a sweeter,
nuttier flavor than Swiss.
The Dairy Manufacturing Plant produces the following flavors that are packaged in half-gallon and three-gallon containers: black cherry, butter pecan, chocolate, chocolate almond, chocolate chip, chocolate chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie dough, coffee, cookies and cream, jungle trek with Snickers, muscadine ripple, peach, praline pecan, sweet potato (available seasonally), strawberry, and vanilla. Butter pecan, chocolate, chocolate almond, cookies and cream, muscadine ripple, sweet potato, strawberry, and vanilla are also available in 8 oz. cups.
Yes. We sell 25 oz. bottles of muscadine juice both by the bottle and the case. We also sell 5 oz. bottles of muscadine juice individually. Cases of 25 oz. bottles may be purchased online either for store pick up or for delivery. Juice that is ordered to be shipped will include the price of a shipper and shipping charges. We do not sell muscadine wine.
You will need to contact the Food Science Club by leaving a voice mail message at 662.325.8764 for shipping information for their Bully Boxes, Bully Samplers, and Jelly Samplers. A Bully Box contains a one-pound cheddar, a one-pound jalapeño pepper cheese, twelve ozs. of MSU cured ham, and one jar each of red and white muscadine jelly. A Bully Sampler contains a one-pound cheddar and one jar of jelly or preserves; a Jelly Sampler contains one jar each of red and white muscadine jelly, one of blueberry preserves, and one jar of raw MSU honey. Please visit their web site at for more information.
The club has gift boxes available for shipping in November and December. The Sales Store has gift boxes, as well as individual jars of jelly, preserves, and honey, when the products are available. The Sales Store has these items only for retail onsite sales but not for shipment.
We sell Bully’s Party Peanuts in 12 oz. and 3.75 lb. containers and 18 oz. jars of Bully’s Peanut Butter, both creamy and crunchy. You can obtain more information about peanut products from the link to the Peanut Products page on this website. We sell salsa, chow chow, barbecue sauce, and two flavors of pepper jelly; see the link to Condiments. In addition, we sell a variety of jams, jellies, preserves, ribbon cane syrup, sweet potato coffee, and Bully’s Cathead Biscuit Mix; please see the link to Bully’s Breakfast.
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