A significant reduction in winter wheat acres in the US should help support prices here in Canada.

That from Bruce Burnett, weather and crop specialist with G3, commenting on last week's USDA crop production report.

Burnett says hard red winter wheat acres are down about eight per cent, dropping over three million acres from last year's planting.

"The lower area is going to help support prices, certainly that's good news in terms of the wheat situation. We're starting to see some of these lower areas that are expected in the upcoming year in the major producing countries come to fruition."

US winter wheat acres are the lowest they've been in 108 years.