Champion. Honoree. Winner. These words all come to mind to describe this year's recipients of the Editor's Choice Awards.
Unlike this year's Olympic Games athletes, the winners of this award don't have to pull off a stunning balance beam routine, capture the winning time in a race event or outsmart their opponents in a game of wit.
Rather, these products help landscape professionals balance the daily demands of their business, save on time, money and labor and work smarter, not harder.
Like the athletes of this year's Olympic Games, the manufacturers of these products have poured countless hours into making them perfect, tested and retested their performance and spent much of their time thinking about how to make them better.
That's why Green Industry Pros recognizes these products with the 2024 Editor’s Choice Awards.
For this year’s Editor’s Choice Awards, the Green Industry Pros staff zeroed in on this year’s top 35 products.
We selected products that represent every sector in the green industry: business management; lawn care; mowing and maintenance; equipment and technology; hardscapes and design; irrigation and lighting; and snow and ice control.
Without further ado, check out this year's winners.
1. Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Lithium-Ion 48V 1.5kWh Commercial Battery (Si1.5)
2. Case Construction Equipment CX50D mini excavator
3. Diamond Mowers Disc Mulcher Belt Drive (BD) Pro X
4. Doosan Bobcat ZT 5000 Zero-Turn Mower
5. Ego Commercial PGX Commercial Charging
7. FMC Corp. Durentis Insecticide
8. HD Hyundai Construction Equipment North America Hyundai HX60A Compact Excavator
9. Hilltip SnowStriker VTR Snowplow
11. Hydro-Rain HSC Landscape Irrigation Controller
12. John Deere Q850R QuikTrak Stand-On Mower
13. Kioti Tractor ZXD Series Diesel Zero-Turn Mower
14. Kress Commercial 60V 25-inch hedge trimmer
15. Kubota Tractor Corp. ZD1611 Zero-Turn Mower
16. Landscape Management Network Crew App
17. Lawson Products Wear-Flex Tire Repair Kit
18. Manitou Mid-Range Skid-Steers and CTLs
19. Milwaukee Tool M18 Fuel Telescoping Pole Saw
21. OTR Engineered Solutions Big Bite Tire
22. Polaris PRO XD Full Size Kinetic
23. Rain Bird 11000 Series Rotors
25. Scag Power Equipment V-Ride XL
26. Senix and Priority Designs X6 Line
27. Steel Green Manufacturing SGXL Granular Attachment Kit
29. Sunseeker Orion X7 Orion X7
30. The Toro Co. GrandStand HDM (Heavy-Duty Mini)
31. Topcon Positioning Systems MC-Mobile
32. Turfco T3200 Spreader-Sprayer