This paper considers the current challenges of agriculture in historical retrospect. As in all activities, agriculture is orchestrated by information governance systems. They have evolved along history following a rather regular trend of disembedding and concentration, disembedding of information from its origin in the physical world and concentration under the control of increasingly powerful market actors. The current challenges of agriculture, whether environmental, health, or culture-related, can be shown to relate to blind spots of the information systems. We consider the potential of intermediation platforms, that are increasingly in control of multi-sided markets in increasingly more sectors, to reshape the view systems have, making them more holistic, able to deal with what was previously neglected as externalities. We first consider the issue theoretically, and then illustrate with the claims of real actors towards a systemic intelligence of agriculture.