[Bluebird]

I buy rice in 20 lb bags and have no freezer space for pretreating. So I store it in gallon size mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. Bugs cannot can survive in a no oxygen environment. You can see the bags shrink tight around the grains as the oxygen is depleted. I do this with beans and flour as well, then store the filled mylar bags in a food safe plastic tote with a lid. If you have rodents, a galvanized trash can would be better than a plastic tote. The rice will last for years stored this way.