LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — At the 2026 National Farm Machinery Show, KUHN Krause debuted the Liqui-PRO strip-till fertilizer application system, a turnkey system that comes standard with a 1,600-gallon tank and pairs with the Gladiator tillage tool.
With strip tillage, the goal is to make a quality seed bed in a single pass as well as to apply fertilizer, thus preparing that strip during the fall to be able to come back and plant on it in the spring.
The pairing of the Liqui-PRO and Gladiator is an expansion of the pull-type system that KUHN launched last year. It has a steerable cart, ISOBUS-compatible rate displays, and the option of a visual flow ball indicator, or Tattler, which is the company’s electronic row-flow sensing technology.
“What you’re able to do is gauge not only blockage on each individual row on the monitor and on the screen, but you’re also able to gauge relative flow,” explained Michael Berggren, product manager with KUHN Krause. “That is all integrated into the same ISOBUS screen for your rate control system — we are doing speed compensating, and rate control is capable of prescriptions and mapping.”
Operators can have a standard seal pump or a wet seal pump. It also comes standard with a 3-inch cam lock quick fill, offering quicker batch times and being able to improve uptime and run time. It also has two- or four-section control options, allowing the user to turn on and off sections of the machine by utilizing the user’s task controller at headlands and point rows. This helps minimize fertilizer overlap.
KUHN’s pull-type strip-till system was launched in June 2025, so the pairing with the Liqui-PRO application helps to showcase this as a complete system that is plumbed and ready to use out the box.
”This is ideal for your strip-till producer who is wanting to manage fertilizer inputs, who’s thinking about doing some biologicals. Maybe they’re in an area where they want to do some fall strip-till, or maybe even spring strip-till with the shank machine, where they’re able to apply some lipid fertilizer,” Berggren said.
