Farmer attended Jefferson City High School along with future All-American, and Missouri teammate, Justin Smith.
He passed for 770 yards, ran for 673 and accounted for 31 touchdowns in 1997 as Jefferson City won the state 5A championship while also a regular on Jefferson City's basketball team that was ranked as high as No.
[1][2][3][4] Farmer was not selected in the 2003 NFL draft, but was signed by the St. Louis Rams as an Undrafted free agent.
He was later allocated to the Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europe where he spent the rest of the year.
In 2015 Farmer and his family were inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.