Case Study: National Grazing Lands Coalition achieves streamlined farm data collection and major time savings with Knack

How Knack helped an agricultural researcher save hours of data entry

The National Grazing Lands Coalition, working with economist Dr. Greg Clary of TMAG, faced a growing data‑collection problem: lengthy paper surveys from farms and ranches that took up to an hour each to transcribe, creating an unsustainable bottleneck for a three‑year study on conservation practices. Dr. Clary needed an affordable, user‑friendly online database he could set up and manage himself without relearning programming.

He built a Knack app with flexible, savable forms and user profiles so participants enter their own data, tied to unique IDs to preserve integrity. The move eliminated extensive manual entry, saved countless hours, and unlocked reporting and analytics for cost‑benefit analyses and education outreach—allowing Dr. Clary to scale the project and run future studies without extra technical resources.

National Grazing Lands Coalition

Greg Clary

National Grazing Lands Coalition