Plain City, OH -- “It's alarming, I think it's a wakeup call," says Plain City farmer Fred Yoder on the findings in a new government report on climate change. 

Yoder is a 4th generation farmer and the Chair of the North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance.

He says if the findings in the Fourth National Climate Assessment are true, the next generations of farmers are on pace for tough times, including more floods, higher temperatures, droughts and less production.

“The report talks about going clear back to productivity levels of the 1980s. We can't do that. We can't feed the world and keep production with those numbers. We have to figure out ways to not only cope with it and adapt, but we have to figure out what to do to reduce the risk," says Yoder. 

In addition to fewer crops, the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the year 2100.

13 federal agencies put together the report and included input from more than 1000 people, including 300 scientists from inside and outside the administration.

Yoder says the easiest and most common sense solution for farmers and consumers is reducing fossil fuels.....and conservation tillage, which  cuts energy, protects the soil and reduces a carbon footprint.​

“Look at a big giant field of corn or soybeans as a big solar panel. It absorbs all the CO2 and if you don't stir it, it stays in the soil. As soon as you stir it, it releases it. So the least you can stir it the better off you are," says Yoder. 

President Trump has said in the past that he doesn't believe climate change is a hoax, but admits it may not be “man made” either.

Yoder says whatever the case, its time to act.

 “Putting the blame, whether its man made, whether its natural its happening. And to think, what would we do if we didn't do anything. I mean all of a sudden its too late and then when the cows got out of the pen and its ran way down the road, what are you going to do. Now's the time to do it, in fact its past time to do it," says Yoder.