Baking or parching the green barley dried it. This was not ripe barley, it was young and green barley. The barley must be green and this occurs in a specific month. Naturally we will find a difference of many weeks between barley that is ripening in southern Texas and barley that is growing in North Dakota. The same is true of barley that may be grown in Brazil compared with the grain growing in Russia.
Seasons are opposite on either side of the equator.
Therefore, whether a small or a great difference in distance, Abib would occur at widely varying times depending on where one lives. The only way to reconcile this discrepancy in growing seasons is to look at the barley that is grown in or around Israel. It was to people living in that area of the world that Yahweh gave the command to keep the Passover and Feast during the green ear month of Abib. It is that area of the world that will give us the proper and accurate time of maturing barley, when Yahweh commanded Israel to keep the first month. Interestingly, barley originated in the Mediterranean region.