Denver — Case IH introduced the 10th configuration option available to producers for the popular 2160 Early Riser planter series during the 2025 Commodity Classic, available for the 2026 model year.
According to Dave Brennan, Case IH planter marketing specialist, the latest configuration — a 24-row, 22-inch row-width model, is a perfect fit for Michigan sugarbeet and soybean growers.
“Sugarbeets are a target market for us on this planter — it’s a great fit for those customers and provides that productivity big seed capacity, big liquid capacity, tracks, all of the high-tech row unit features we talk about on planters,” Brennan said.
“We think it’s going to fit well for soybean growers that have some white mold disease pressure to potentially provide more air flow in there with a little bit wider row spacing than say a 15-in row but still gives us that early canopy, versus a 30-inch row configuration.”
With 600 gallons of on-board liquid capacity on all 2160 series planters, Brennan said the planters are good fit for the growing trend of putting nutrients on with that planter while maintaining productivity.
The newest configuration also continues to provide a 120-bushel seed capacity “to get that productivity level up in the field and run a little bit longer, spending less time filling product and more time in the seat.”
According to Brennan, the planter is designed to operate with “accuracy at your speed.”
“We want that farmer to have that, I'll say, ‘tummy comfort,’ to know that they're doing their job correctly,” he said. “They're trying to plant seed in the ground and make sure they're doing it accurately.”
Whether the preferred speed is 5 mph or 10 mph, Brennan said all of the 2160 series planters can be equipped to match speed with accuracy, including in-cab, hydraulic downforce solutions.
Included in the list of new design features for 2026, according to Brennan, are several options to accommodate no-till scenarios, including a redesigned shark tooth design of existing residue manager blades.
“We've actually narrowed that tooth up and it's kind of a hybrid tine to move less soil but still move that residue. And so those customers are putting down a pre-emerge herbicide, we're not moving that treated soil out of the way, so we don’t get weeds in the row later in life for just moving that residue,” Brennan added.
A second option includes spoked gauge wheel that allows for planting in less-than-ideal sold moisture conditions.
A hydraulicly driven, high-capacity air compressor allows for in cab control features, including residue managers and on the planter’s closing system, “maximizing those agronomic drivers that we at Case IH talk about — seed to soil contact being one of those agronomic drivers making sure that we're enveloping that seed in that loose moist soil to promote that early even emergence,” Brennan said.
With the introduction of the latest configuration, Brennan said Case IH will begin taking orders now, for the model year 2026 planters
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