Honours
Farmer was made a Life Member of the North Adelaide Football Club in 1937. In 1980 the "Ken Farmer Gates" were dedicated on the eastern side of North Adelaide's home ground, Prospect Oval. Since 1981 the leading goalkicker in the SANFL each season has been awarded the "Ken Farmer Medal".
Surprisingly left out of the initial inductees to the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, he was inducted in 1998.
In 2000 Farmer was the inevitable selection as full forward in North Adelaide's official 'Team of the Twentieth Century'.
Farmer was an inaugural inductee to the SANFL Hall of Fame in 2002.
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