Well, here's what worked for us the last few nights.  Most stalks are broken off about 4" above the ground so the point of the snout will go under, at least here.  The areas where it is completely flat we can still get it to feed with the reel.

Pick when frozen. Root ball stays in the ground and the stalk breaks off or is cut instead of dragging up.  A lot easier on everything.  Got up at midnight over the weekend and then it stayed frozen M/T/part of W. 

When it warmed up on W tremendously more difficult since it was so damp and tough. 

Pick one way.  In our case it was south to north.  Those two different days of 70mph wind knocked a lot of stuff down from the NW to the SE.  End rows worked better here E to W, but there was that day of 40mph gusts that laid a little bit of the E/W rows down to the SW.

We were just using an old 1083 with a Kelderman reel.  Sprayed spray graphite on the snouts and it helped.  We have crunched about a snout a night and it is annoying.

We are picking up darn near everything, going S to N.  Tried going N to S and leaving 20-40bpa so quit doing that.