OPE+Landscape Twenty for 2026 New Product Award winners
July 20, 2026 (Bloomington, Minn.) – OPE+Landscape announced its selections for the Twenty for 2026 New Product Awards. Each year at this time, the OPE+Landscape team selects the 20 new products from the past year that they feel best impact the professional landscape industry. Winners were selected based on innovation, marketability and application within the profession.
“Innovation doesn’t always mean reinventing the wheel,” said Brian Ethridge, managing editor, OPE+Landscape. “Sometimes it’s a smarter way to solve an everyday challenge. That’s what impressed us most about this year’s winners. The best products don’t ask professionals to change the way they work; they simply help them do it better.”
The 20 winning products will be featured in the July issue of OPE+Landscape and can also be seen OPE-plus.com by clicking here. The OPE+Landscape Twenty for 2026 New Product Award winners, in alphabetical order by company name, are as follows:
- Bobcat L35 compact wheel loader
- Case TL100EV electric mini track loader
- Diamond Mowers DM360
- Ditch Witch SK1000
- Ferris Z3X Soft Ride stand-on mower
- Grasshopper SO34.5KW stand-on mower
- Greenworks Optimus 42N backpack blower
- Honda HRC-BE walk-behind battery-powered lawn mower
- Husqvarna 564 XP fuel injected chainsaw
- JCB 250T
- John Deere Z998R ZTrak zero-turn
- Kress Robotics KR 800 Voyager
- Kubota RTV-X Long Bed
- Milwaukee Tool MX Fuel backpack blower
- Scag 2500X stand-on tracked power buggy
- SiteOne LESCO battery powered self-propelled spreader
- Stihl BRA 280 battery-powered backpack blower
- Toro PROLINE AMI
- Wright ZTS
All new products submitted for consideration were introduced to the market between June 2, 2025, and June 1, 2026. The 20 winners were selected from among all qualifying nominations.
