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JOHN VOGEL, TOBACCO MASTER
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John Vogel became director of all
operations at the
farm and
factory of
tocacco company
in 2002. Though previously unknown in the marketplace, his
entire 40-year career has been devoted to tobacco and cigars.
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Vogel's German and Spanish parents
raised him in Nicaragua. There, he graduated with a university
degree in agronomical engineering. He was hired by the world's
largest cigar manufacturer, where his 20 years as project leader
in the Research and Development Department took him on
assignments around the world and into every facet of the
company's activities. His most relevant work focused on all
aspects of cigar tobacco agricultural research. He gained
expertise in
plant breeding, soils testing, fertilizer selection, curing
and fermenting studies, plant disease and insect identification
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Leaving his employer amicably, Vogel spent
20 years as a technical consultant to the industry. His
distinguished career and stature have earned him recognition
from his former employer, the US Departments of Commerce and
Agriculture, the Windsor County Agricultural Station (in
Connecticut's tobacco-farming capital). Foreign heads of
state honored him for his work in helping develop the
cultivation and improvement of tobaccos in their countries. |
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| During the consulting phase of
his career, Vogel acquired and preserved his unique
ancestral seed bank of genetically pure Cuban tobacco seeds,
stretching back 60 years. This seed bank exists nowhere
else in the world. The genetical material was not
acquired clandestinely, but through his lifelong association
with industry-respected tobacco producers and genetic
scientists, including colleagues at Cuban Land, the
agricultural research institution that operated in Cuba
until Castro disbanded it. Vogel's education, experience and
expertise are ...your assurance... you are smoking the
cigars that are the bridge between the legendary
Havanas of the past and today. |
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