I sit down with Mariano Alvarez and Brendan Collins, co-founders of Avalo, to talk about how they are using their plant breeding technology to rebuild the US cotton supply chain from the seed up.

We get into how they’re able to sell seeds to farmers at half the market price, why they contract with them to buy the cotton back before a single seed goes into the ground, and the long-term goal of bringing smaller farms back to America.

Enjoy.

Recording date: June 11, 2026

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

05:09 What Plant Breeding Actually Is

06:50 Current Cotton Supply Chain

10:31 Avalo’s Rapid Evolution Process

13:41 Texas Cotton Farm Pilot

18:07 How Avalo Is Using AI

23:06 Model & Open Source Used To Build Avalo

24:27 Avalo's Founding Story

28:29 Creating A New Cotton Supply Chain

31:23 Agricultural Industry Challenges

38:06 Why Start With Cotton

41:38 Avalo’s Initial Results

43:21 America's Biggest Little Cotton Patch

46:49 Farmers’ Economics With Avalo

50:46 Going Direct WIth Clothing Brands

58:00 How To Make Avalo's Vision Become Reality

01:01:25 Rapid Fire

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Connect with Avalo

* Website: https://www.avalo.ai/

* Mariano Alvarez: m.alvarez@avalo.ai

* Brendan Collins: b.collins@avalo.ai

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Jordan

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