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Field harvesting would be a snap, much faster than digging or spading a tree b+b, with much less root disturbance and stress.
The trick is to plant the bags so the top is slightly above field grade. This reduces/eliminates rooting over the top and out of the bag, a big problem with notorious surface rooting trees like Maples and Birches.
Some bags come with a tag stating that the bag must be removed at time of planting. I would simply sell all my plants in the bag, with explicit instruction on proper removal of the bag. That should cover you, and eliminate the possibility that you remove the bag at the nusery, put the plant in a container, and the customer goes home and kills it out of the ground.
From bag to final home would be best case for the tree and your nursery.
I've never found removing the grow bag from bag grown plants a struggle, and I've planted scores. Wrestling with the big rootballs on traditional b+b, that's a struggle...
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