The farmer who put a picture on Facebook to celebrate rain, only to find it deleted hours later.

This is the image banned by Facebook.

Where you see a happy farmer celebrating the arrival of the rain.

Facebook sees a policy violation for graphic content.

The image is of farmer, James Rogers from Cobar. His property had not seen rain in eight months.

When a downpour started last Friday the jubilant farmer raced to his paddocks stark naked except for his cowboy hat. (Of course!)

His delighted wife decided to take a cheeky snap and uploaded the image to the Cattle Station photo’s Facebook page.

But many users saw it as offensive and reported the ‘content violation’ to Facebook. Facebook removed the picture and banned Cattle Station’s page for 24-hours.

The Brisbane Times reports that then other users who had shared the image also got blocked.

The 22-year-old said he did not understand how such a good-natured photo could be so controversial.

“I couldn’t believe it… it was just a harmless joke and it kept going,” he said.

“There’s much worse things on Facebook than that.”

James told The Brisbane Times that all his life he had run out into the rain naked and he couldn’t see what the big deal was.

He was just happy it had finally rained.