Both. It allowed me to get the business off the ground through capital asset purchases and it provides an operating loan, so to speak, to afford inputs. The fig

Both. It allowed me to get the business off the ground through capital asset purchases and it provides an operating loan, so to speak, to afford inputs. The figures I speak of are net income, so the "operating loan" is paid back before reaching those figures. As farming is, by definition, an investment, not a job, it is implied that the income is the ROI on the capital investment.