I sell both Dekalb and Asgrow they are both products of Monsanto. I dont know ehere you live . but in Delaware we start planting about the 10th of April, spray the weeds when the corn gets a little higher than ankle high. Our planting rates are about 26000 ppa, which means a bag of seed corn will plant about 3 acres, if your fertilization and ph are up you could get by without a starter fertilizer.. We use triple 15 for starter , we use 2- 16 row JD planters one liquid and one dry, we are going to plant a little over 4,000 acres this year and it will all be RR....