Establishing a New Series of Caches

I am a great believer in storing food and consumable items, and a great believer in hiding my stores from the rest of the world.

Before I retired, I lived and worked in the high desert of California. Since it is next to impossible to grow food in a desert, I purchased over 2,000 lbs of grain, rice, beans, salt, sugar, and freeze dried yummies. When I retired and moved to Oklahoma, I moved it all.

But for the last 12 months my food storage has been sitting in a 20 ft Conex box with a fancy lock on the door. It is well protected against sneaky people, but not against a large group of well equipped raiders, or the actions of a local government planning to redistribute it.

Now I'm think about building a series of buried caches to contain most of my food. I'm thinking of filling (8) 55 gal steel drums with a mixture of bulk food items and consumable items.

In my testing, I found that a 55 gal steel drum will hold the contents of (8) 6 gallon super pails (Each containing 45 lbs of wheat, rice, beans, or similar grain).

I'm also thinking about building two additional caches of weapons, ammo, clothing, and camping gear. I live on 64 ac of rough, partly timbered ranch land, in a remote area. I also own a 4WD tractor with a backhoe.

My question is, what mixture of food items should I put into each cache?
How should I locate them so I can recover them at night without electronics or a GPS?
What additional rust protection should I apply to a typical food grade steel drum?

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Establishing a New Series of Caches