While attention from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has focused on things such as coal and the future of the Great Barrier Reef, it also contains serious implications for the future of agriculture in Queensland.

Longreach grazier and member of Farmers for Climate Action Angus Emmett told the ABC's Sheridan Stewart farms would need more water to produce smaller yields even as a warming planet delivered a drier, hotter Queensland.

Mr Emmett said the Federal Government needed to act strongly to cut carbon emissions, including by phasing out coal.