“Where do beans invest their money?”/“The stalk market.”

The stock market is sometimes punned as the “stalk” market. The “stalk market” puns have included bean, celery and corn jokes.
   
“Q: How did the corn plant lose all her money? A: By playing the stalk market” was printed in a 1990 book. “Where do corn farmers invest their money? In the stalk market!!” was posted on Twitter on February 2, 2018.
   
“The rich celery farmer earned a fortune on the stalk market” was printed in a 1992 book. “Celery farmers play the stalk market” was posted on the newsgroup rec.arts.startrek.current on March 28, 1992.
   
“When Jack traded the cow for those beans he was investing in the stalk market”—a joke on the story of “Jack and the Beanstalk”—was posted on Twitter on November 13, 2014. “Where do beans invest their money? The stalk market” was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on February 5, 2018.
   
       
Google Books
Out on a Limb:
Riddles about Trees and Plants
By Scott K. Peterson
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co.
1990  
Pg. ?:
Q: How did the corn plant lose all her money?
A: By playing the stalk market.
   
Google Books
Funny You Should Ask:
How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay
By Marvin Terban
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company
1992
Pg. 25:
The rich celery farmer earned a fortune on the stalk market.
 
Google Groups: rec.arts.startrek.current
two simple questions
bernie wong
3/28/92
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Celery farmers play the stalk market.
 
Google Groups: bit.listserv.travel-l
puns for the weekend
Sonnie Willis
9/14/96
Past Puns of the day
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26. On the commodities exchange when the price of corn goes up, some farmers are all ears. Others are only interested in the stalk market.
     
Google Books
Modems for Dummies
By Tina Rathbone
Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide
1996
Pg. ?:
Celery farmers play the stalk market.
 
Google Groups: misc.invest.stocks
Canada’s stalk market, a nest egg for all Seasons
orville
7/6/02
Building that nest egg all comes down to selecting the right stalks at the right time.
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orville
7/6/02
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:01:43 -0700, “Peter L”